Sentence examples for notable crime from inspiring English sources

The book was completed 30 years after he died, in 1989, by Robert B Parker, a Chandler fan and a notable crime writer in his own right.

Curt, fit, and unloved, he is exiled to the docile country town of Sandford, where the most notable crime is the gratuitous harm done to Shakespeare by the amateur dramatic society.

Although Peace often features in lists of notable crime writers, and the jacket of Tokyo Year Zero still quotes Ian Rankin's description of him as "the English James Ellroy", it is in his historical settings, rather than in his undoubted skill as a crime writer, where the true power of his work resides.

"Shakespeare's World," a collaboration between the Oxford English Dictionary and the Folger Shakespeare Library, reports that, in 1567, one Ralph Adderly wrote of his brother-in-law, "I do assure you he is unsuspected of any untruth or other notable crime (except a white lie) which is taken for a Small fault in these parts".

Below is a round up of notable hate crimes and bias incidents against Sikhs since 9/11.

During the Giuliani years, the crack cocaine epidemic was quieting down, and across the country, even cities with troubled police departments were seeing notable declines in crime.

John C. Colt, who murdered a man named Samuel Adams in 1841, became the subject of a pamphlet because he used a hatchet and not a pistol in the crime — notable because his brother was Samuel Colt, who didn't miss the opportunity to demonstrate one of his patented revolvers at the trial.

One notable figure was crime boss, Aziz Batukaev.

This week provided some notable examples of Crime and Punishment in modern America.

One notable figure was crime boss Aziz Batukaev, an ethnic Chechen who made his name in the early 90s as a heroin kingpin.

The shared commonalities make the set of crimes notable and distinct from other criminal activity occurring within the same general date range.