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James Thom was born May 28, 1933, in Gosport, Indiana, to Jay Webb and Julia Thom, both doctors. [2] [3] He is one of four siblings. [2]He attended Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, and was in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years (1953-1956) during the Korean War, becoming a sergeant.
Thompson's father, known as "Big Jim" Thompson, was a teacher for a decade in Burwell, Nebraska before his son's birth; his wife and Jim's mother, Birdie Myers, was a former student. He moved the family to Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory, and was elected sheriff of Caddo County. He ran for the state legislature in 1906, but was defeated.
Kari Vaara, police chief in the town of Kittilä, Lapland, debuted in Thompson's first novel, Snow Angels.In the second novel, Lucifer's Tears, he moves to Helsinki.While he is portrayed as a good cop in the first two books, in the next installment, Helsinki White, we see Vaara turning into a rogue and corrupt cop. Helsinki Blood takes on further along the same line, with Vaara trying to tie ...
Michelle Eileen McNamara (April 14, 1970 – April 21, 2016) was an American true crime author. She was the author of the true crime book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, [1] and helped coin the moniker "Golden State Killer" of the serial killer who was identified after her death as Joseph James DeAngelo.
The collection was a National Book Award finalist. Jones published two other collections of short stories, Cold Snap (1995) and Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (1999). See List of Thom Jones Stories. Night Train: New and Selected Stories was published in October 2018 by Little, Brown. [4]
Fearing for his wife and daughter, Ned fatefully ignores the warning and returns to the village. Ned arrives in time to see the heavily-veiled new Corn Maiden (whom he thinks is Tamar Penrose, who had been Corn Maiden two cycles [14 years] earlier), Justin, and the village women depart for Harvest Home. Ned races ahead of them.
Caitlin Thomas (née Macnamara; 8 December 1913 – 31 July 1994) was an author and the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas.Their marriage was a stormy affair, fueled by alcohol and infidelity, though the couple remained together until Dylan's death in 1953.
The Secret Service agent James Bond investigates the murder of a motorcycle dispatch-rider and the theft of his top-secret documents by a motorcycle-riding assassin. The rider was en route from the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, then located in Versailles, to his base, Station F, in Saint-Germain in France.