Sentence examples for leading crime from inspiring English sources

One, "Echoes in the Darkness" (1987), by the leading crime author Joseph Wambaugh, became a bestseller and a television movie.

Learn how to keep your readers hooked from the very first page at this incredible masterclass with leading crime authors Charles Cumming, Susie Steiner and Simon Toyne.

This strong sense of tradition and succession in crime fiction was underlined by the almost universal tendency of leading crime novelists to acknowledge predecessors as inspirations.

Unless they take a broad view and start leading crime reduction efforts across agencies, they will fail the voters who have just elected them.

The evening is hosted by Julia Wisdom, leading crime fiction publisher at HarperCollins, making it an unmissable masterclass for crime writers of all levels.

Bogdana Lazarova, a leading crime reporter, said she was convinced that at the time of his killing, Mr. Tsankov, desperate for cash, was offering his services to both the underworld and the police.

The fiction shortlist for the leading crime-writing prize, the Macallan Daggers, includes only one British author among the contending six.

More than 500 bus drivers have been killed in robberies since 2007, leading InSight Crime, which tracks organized crime in the Americas, to call it "the most dangerous profession on the planet".

The fall in crime has been dramatic, the downward shift beginning in the mid-1990s, continuing year on year and leading to crime levels in 2012 that are below those of the early 1980s.

It is a sequel to his earlier work, "The Firm," which followed several leading British crime families led by well-dressed older men with a code of honor, not unlike the New York City Mafia crime families of  the 1940s and 1950s.

Identity theft has been the leading consumer crime complaint in recent years.