Fifty percent art heist, 50% murder mystery, 100% Anderson, the film stars veteran actor F. Murray Abraham as the mysterious Mr Moustafa, who relates to Jude Law's author the tale of how, after being taken under the wing of Gustave, he rose from the lowly rank of lobby boy to become the owner and proprietor of the Grand Budapest Hotel.
As I waited, I realised it was also a good spot for a drug deal, a heist or a murder, which was when I got nervous.
In the years since the heist and the murder, the Martin Scorsese blockbuster was made, books were written and some of the robbers were convicted or killed.
There were brief allusions to his connections with the IRA, and to the terrorists' alleged involvement in both the heist and the murder (alleged, that is, by both the British and Irish governments).
Complex story worlds create a spectrum of social roles: for example, legal systems offer clusters - law-makers, law-breakers, "thief-takers" and victims, the basis for crime or revenge thrillers, heists and capers, murder mysteries and television police or detective series.
I like murder mysteries, heist books and spy books, preferably from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Valenti, a Bonanno associate who has pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, is expected to take the witness stand to testify about Asaro's alleged role in the Lufthansa heist and a gruesome murder of a suspected mob turncoat.
In Stranger in Paradise ($9.99) professional hit man Wilson (Crow) Cromartie, who left town ten years before during a spectacular heist involving kidnapping and murder on a nearby affluent island, returns to Paradise.
But when the count goes missing, the search reveals a decades-old murder and a diamond heist.
Slightly less than 100percentt of the scripts that make it this far, past the swarm of agents and assistants, deal with the mob, a heist and/or an enigmatic but bloody murder.
