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The Hunter -A Parker Novel Flashcards

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Who is parker

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Main character and fictional criminal

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Author name

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Richard stark pseudonym for donald westlake

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What are parkers qualities?

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No traditional qualities. He is ruthless, cold, methodical and willing. To commit murder to get what he wants. In criminal terms one might call him efficientabd professional

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Rules he lives by…

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He will not double cross a criminal he is working with.

If he is double crossed he methodically plans revenge.

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What is parkers full name

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Never said in book. Might even be an alias

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Main plot of book

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Parker chases an exassociate who double crossed him on a heist and left him for dead. He survives but is arrested.

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Slowly and methodically parker tracks down who

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Mal resnick his former accomplice

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Who did mal convince to shoot parker

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His wife, Lynn

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The gambling syndicate is aka

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The outfit

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When the outfit refuses to make good on parkers 40000 owed from resnick he

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Takes on the outfit

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Parkers plans fall apart sometimes due to

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Bad luck bad partners greed incompetence

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Parker has to work but the plans

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Careful plans tend to fall apart

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What name is lined to his fingerprints

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Ronald Kasper

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Parker said he first used a gun where

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In germany maybe meaning he was in ww2

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The novel does not address good and evil

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True

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There seems to be an underlying theme that all business is crime

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True

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He is a loner competing with conglomerates surrounded by amateurs. He seems to have no interest in the world, weather etc.

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True

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Why does he want money, for power?

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No. Not interested in power. Rather wants money to buy quiet. Ironic. Cant find quiet without drama?

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Why is he concerned about fingerprints?

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They are linked to death of prison guard.

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Always on the move, hunted, hunting, scheming, cheating, brutalizing, hunting for money too. Stange line between justice and mercy.

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Lack of humanity. No guilt, empathy, learning

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How is he physically described

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Big shaggy square shouldered

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21
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Where does joe sheer live who people can call if they need parker

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Nebraska

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What did he do after a job

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Have sex

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What is the pattern

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Commit heist, livevin luxury hotel with wife, commit another heist when needed.

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What heist goes wrong

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A crew from california in a munitions cash heist. Heist fine but double crossed.

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25
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First crime back in new york city

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Identity theft

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How does lynn the wife die

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Sleeping pills

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Taxi dispatcher

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Arthur stegman, the money couriers boss

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Mals job

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Regional manager of the outfit

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29
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Mals screwup for the outfit

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80000 in chicago

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Outfits new york manager

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Frederick carter

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Carters supervisor

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Bronson who is threatened with loss of carter and now fairfax and infiltration

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Who informed mal that parker was in town

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Stegman

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Why do police question parker

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They think he is drug smuggling

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34
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Where is he going to spend money

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Moving to florida and plastic surgery

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When written

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1962

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36
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Book opens where …location

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George washington bridge

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37
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Latent fag ….define

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Inclination to be gay without acting on it.

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38
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Wallet brown leather empty and beat to hell

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Metaphor for parker

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39
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Define taut

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Stretched or pulled tight

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40
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Kept working on his face so that he didnt look mean or mad

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Recurring theme not what he seems, later wants plastic surgery

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What was his fake name for bank

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Edward johnson

42
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Bank account not found “easy come easy go”

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Didn’t feel that way when he was robbed

43
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When do we hear about a dime

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Panhandled it from a latent gag, bought coffee with it, waitress threw it out as her tip , didn’t have it to use for pay toilet

44
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Describes the ordinary details of setting often, strange contrast to the

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Bizarre nature of events and actions of the story

45
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Parker calls Lynn the Judas Ewe what does that mean

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Betraying female

46
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How much does courier bring to Lynn on the 1st of each month?

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1000

47
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Define glowering

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To look or stare with anger

48
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When the book references that lynn calls him by name does she ever really say his name

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No, perhaps because his name is not really parker.

49
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Did parker plan to kill wife

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No

50
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How many days did parker have to wait for courier after lynn died

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Threevor four days

51
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What is vag short for

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Vagabond

52
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Did parker feel emotion?

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Only for lynn, love and hate

53
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What did he do with lynns body

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Carried her in broad daylight to park, again there things arent what they seem, then slashed her face to make it appear something different

54
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What was lynn’s last name

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Parker

55
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Courier’s name

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Sydney Chalmers

56
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Any religious references?

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Yes Lynn with Parker…. Swears on cross

57
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What were they doing in the taxi back room

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Playing 7 card stud

58
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What is bush league

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Inferior league, originally meant those that played baseball in the country bush.

59
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Where did stegman drive parker to talk

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The beach parking lot by jamaica bay off rockaway parkway

60
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Who reports to whom

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Bronson- Carter/fairfax- Mal resnick - Arthur Stegman - Sydney Chalmers

61
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Parker knew stegman was a dead end

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Because no one tailed parker

62
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Who was involved in the 80000 heist in canada

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Parker, lynn, mal and a canadian named chester

63
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Who put on money for heist

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Bleek a lawyer from california

64
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Who could fly the plane

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Ryan and suprisingly mal

65
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How many men did they encounter on the island

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15

66
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Ryan slit whose throat

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Bleek the old man…CHECK THIS ONE

67
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What saved parker from the six shots

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One in his buckle, 5 missed, then they set fire to the house

68
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How many days did parker lay hiding

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3

69
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How did the others die on the heist

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Which one did it. Mal was gone. Chester and sil killed by ryan by slitting throat. Lynn shot parker.how did ryan die? .Bullet holes near landing strip….CHECK THIS ANSWER

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How much longer did parker have in jail before he killed the guard

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Two months

71
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Mals girlfriend

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Pearl, who seems like a real person

72
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What is the name of the outfits hotel

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Oakwood arms

73
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Define junketing

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Taking a trip or tour

74
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Mals girlfriend pearl was on

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Heroin

75
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Before mal was in the outfit e was a

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Cab driver

76
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Mals girlfriend could not feel pain unlike

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Lynn

77
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Mal called everyone a

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Sweetie

78
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What was the name of the bar

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Landau’s

79
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Who is often described as big and mean with big hands with veins

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Parker

80
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Parker never told stegman how to contact him about mal

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True. Then mal told stegman to find parke

81
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Phil had 4 rooms mal had

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2.

82
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Define mettle.

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…

83
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Mal asked phil for help with

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Setting up an apointment with justin fairbanks or mr carter. Because it wasnt outfit business or hed go thru phil

84
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3 choices given to mal from carter

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1give you assistance protecting our investment
2 handle it yourself proving you are self reliant
3 have you replaced and we do have the question since the blunder in chicago

They chose 2

85
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Truth could be worse than lie…wouldn’t tell carter about true heist instead lied that it was a desmoine payroll job. Why

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Because the munitions deal could have been the outfit meaning he could have stole from cartrr.

86
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What did mal splurge on

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A four room 32 a night suit and a 100 athletic blond…. Beneath it all the room was old and impersonal beneath the overlay. It could be occupied bur not lived in. And mrcarter was watching nowand he couldnt use the boys

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Mal lied to ryan that parker was double crossing them and he would kill them too. Ryan wasnt sure. Mal slit chesters throat and blamed it on parker. Ryan was ready to shoot him with a gun than mal had another idea…

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More complicated more risky more dangerous…. Lynn.

88
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Parker was going to go see mal the night parker was shot was he really going to,shoot mal ?

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Not sure, need to,look up

89
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Cigs cheap in dc expensive in canada. Whiskey is cheap in canada expensive in dc. Where is the midstop

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New york

90
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Why did mal not tell lynn how to find him

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Because he knew she would never want to unless she wanted to killl him

91
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Name of bodega

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Delgado….where he looked for jimmy delgardo,

92
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Bartender name

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Bernie…works where the hustlers are…..parker told him he was looking for his so called sister rosalie actually wanda a hustler he knew,,,green eyes red hair conical breasts slender waist

93
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Define lugubriously

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Full of sadness and sorrow.

94
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Wanda could help parker get in to where mal was hiding but if he got caught he said he would blame.

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Stegman. She told him oakwood arms 361 but mal was already gone.

95
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Parker hid here leaving his prints everywhere and he killed a second person here

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The beauty salon. The lady with asthma. He was watching the oakwood arms trying to figure a way into the office building next to it. He decided to do so by delivering coffee.

96
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Wanda called irma to find out where mal was with a prostitute and used the excuse he

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Owed her 20 bucks

97
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Why is wanda the prostitute on vacation

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Because she has her monthly period

98
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After killing mal parker went to see

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Carter.

99
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Who killed carter

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Parker and then made his move on fairfax…bronson said no

100
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Parker said syndicate easy to hit because it is

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Organized

101
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Parler killed stegman with the

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Butt of a gun near the end of the subway line.

102
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The ending scenes are centered around a train railyard. He is careful not to step on the

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Electrified third rail covered with wood.the suitcase he retrieved there was 45000 which he eventually loses leaving behind with two cops requiring him to do one more syndicate job this time he got 23000…. Miami looked fine in the end or maybe he would go to the keys

103
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Copyright

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1962

Summer 2014 Reading (14 decks)

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