THE ANATOMY OF A CRIME

by Joseph F. Dinneen ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Being ""A Startilng Parallel to the Great $2,500,000 Brink's Robbery"", this travels back over a reminiscent terrain and is as much an explanation of police procedure as a speculation over a case in which there were too many coincidences and too few conclusions. This is the story of Tony Turchino, a local hoodlum who became a career criminal and whose early history of truancy and delinquency was temporarily checked when at 14, Gallagher, a new cop, shot him. Gallagher, partially out of guilt, was to intercede for Tony on other charges through the years- and Tony, and his gang, were to feed Gallagher with tips which led to the conviction of many other offenders. But the armed robbery of Doane's Transfer by six men in masks and pen jackets, and the successful getaway with two and a half million, gives Tony a sure alibi- in Gallagher with whom he had been at the time of the hold up, and gives Galagher the uncomfortable certainty he can never prove that Tony is behind the crime.... An inquest, over the biggest heist in history, this is a reporter's rewrite of an old case which holds its interest largely for those who like authentic annals of crime.

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Publisher: Scribner

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: FICTION