He was nominated for an Academy Award twice ( for 1960's Murder, Inc. and 1961's Pocketful of Miracles ), and won the Emmy Award on five occasions ( four for Columbo ) and the Golden Globe award once.

Falk's performance in Murder, Inc. ( 1960 ) was a turning point in his career.

He won election as the Kings County District Attorney in 1939 and his prosecution of the organized crime syndicate known as Murder, Inc. made him a national celebrity.

* March 4 – In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing, along with Emanuel Weiss, and Louis Capone.

Among these were several of the mob-affiliated hitmen belonging to the murder-for-hire group Murder, Inc., which was headed up by major mob leaders Louis " Lepke " Buchalter and Albert Anastasia.

* Ernst went back to the annual CC Inc reunion gig and produced albums for De Drie Heeren ( featuring Joost ) and indie-band Blue Murder.

Anastasia had been, since the 1930s, the operating head (" Lord High Executioner ") of the syndicate's most notorious death squad, Murder, Inc., which was allegedly responsible for 900-1, 000 murders.

* Turkus, Burton B. and Feder, Sid: Murder Inc. Farrar Straus and Young, 1992.

Brown had been signed to Murder Inc. Records.

However much like the situation with 2Pac, Murder Inc. began dissolving, leading to Brown's tenure with them brief.

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Hired by Lansky and Luciano, the shooters allegedly included Schultz gang lieutenant, Abraham " Bo " Weinberg and Murder, Inc. gunman, Samuel " Red " Levine.

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Originally headed by Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, and later by Albert " The Mad Hatter " Anastasia, Murder, Inc. was responsible for between 400 and 1, 000 contract killings, until the group was exposed in the early 1940s by informer and group member Abe " Kid Twist " Reles.

In his biography The Valachi Papers, Mafia turncoat Joe Valachi insisted Murder, Inc. did not commit crimes for the Mafia, but this is contradicted by other sources, and Albert Anastasia was also head of a Mafia crime family.

Based in part out of Midnight Rose candy store in Brooklyn, Murder Inc. hit men used a wider variety of weapons, including ice picks, to murder their victims.

Murder, Inc. was established after the formation of the commission of the National Crime Syndicate, to which it ultimately answered.

In the 1930s Buchalter used Murder, Inc. to murder witnesses and suspected informants when he was investigated by crusading prosecutor Thomas Dewey.

As the thorough Workman stayed behind to make sure they had completed their assignment and finished off Schultz in the men's room of the restaurant, Weiss escaped the scene with their Murder, Inc. getaway driver Seymour Schechter.

Although he had simply followed Weiss ' frantic orders to drive away without waiting for Workman, the unfortunate Schechter ended up bearing the punishment, becoming a Murder Inc victim himself a short time later.

The testimony of " Kid Twist " Reles was particularly important to the prosecution, as he was a more senior gang member, and he is considered the key to the downfall of Murder, Inc ..

With many of its members sent to the electric chair or prison, Murder, Inc. vanished within a few years.

The nigger boy fled down the stairs, screaming, `` Murder ''.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

Murder on the Links began with news from France, a wife debunked, who claimed intruders tied her up and murdered her husband.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd killer was suggested by brother-in-law James Watt.

In six stories, Christie allows the murderer to escape justice ( and in the case of the last three, implicitly almost approves of their crimes ); these are The Witness for the Prosecution, Five Little Pigs, The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder on the Orient Express, Curtain and The Unexpected Guest.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

Most notably are the characters of Dr. Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia, Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, and many minor characters in They Came to Baghdad were archaeologists.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

: Christie ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.

In the 1986 TV play, Murder by the Book, Christie herself ( Dame Peggy Ashcroft ) murdered one of her fictional-turned-real characters, Poirot.

These three novels are now available in the collection Murder In Three Stages.

As early as Murder on the Links, where he still largely depends on clues, Poirot mocks a rival " bloodhound " detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues that had been established in detective fiction by the example of Sherlock Holmes: footprints, fingerprints and cigar ash.

In chapter 21 of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, for example, Poirot talks about a mentally disabled nephew: this proves to be a ruse so that he can find out about homes for the mentally unfit, and in Dumb Witness, Poirot tells of an elderly invalid mother as a pretence to investigate the local nurses.

The Murder On the Links saw the Belgian pit his grey cells against a French murderer.

In the Middle East he solved the cases of Death on the Nile, and Murder in Mesopotamia with ease and even survived An Appointment with Death.

As he passed through Eastern Europe on his return trip, he solved The Murder on the Orient Express.

In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd he allowed the murderer to escape justice through suicide and then ensured the truth was never known to spare the feelings of the murderer's relatives.

It could be suggested that in Murder on the Orient Express Poirot allows the murderers to escape justice as well, after he discovers that twelve different people stabbed the victim – Mr. Ratchett – in his sleep.

Most of the cases covered by Poirot's private detective agency take place before his retirement to grow marrows, at which time he solves The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Hercule Poirot became famous with the publication, in 1926, of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose surprising solution proved controversial.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.