The phrase "a string of notorious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of well-known or infamous events, people, or things that are often viewed negatively.
Example: "The documentary highlighted a string of notorious crimes that shook the city in the 1990s."
Alternatives: "a series of infamous" or "a chain of notorious".
Alas, they helped keep in business a string of special prosecutors, the last and most notorious of them Kenneth Starr, whose probe into Whitewater gradually expanded to Clinton's private life – and ultimately led to the exposure of his trysts with Monica Lewinsky.
But the crackdown extends way beyond a notorious comic with a string of convictions.
launched a string of singles by the hottest rapper in hip-hop, The Notorious B.I.G.
Among these, the last is perhaps the most conspicuous – the city has 18 newspapers and a string of scandal-hungry TV and radio stations, many of them notorious for broadcasting unscrupulous celebrity gossip and political exposés.
Lauren Cuthbertson has suffered a string of mishaps, most recently a badly twisted foot sustained while rehearsing the notorious "slide" in Act 1 of Manon.
And they waited hours for legal rulings as a string of judges recused themselves in the voters' cases involving the county's notorious butterfly ballot, wondering aloud about the legal ramifications of their decisions.
As well as being accused of a string of gangland murders, Bulger is also believed to have been involved in another notorious unsolved crime, one of the biggest art heist's in history.
Susan Atkins, who committed one of modern history's most notorious crimes when she joined Charles Manson and his gang for a string of killings in 1969 that terrorized Los Angeles and put her in prison for the rest of her life, has died.
By 1999, Marion Hammer had already pushed through a string of gun-rights laws and would in the coming years shepherd many more onto the books, including Florida's notorious "stand your ground" act.
At the conclusion of his recent eight-week trial, Bulger was found guilty on 31 counts, for a string of crimes including racketeering, murder, extortion and money-laundering, all committed from the 1970s to the 1990s, when he led the notorious Winter Hill Gang.
