Volume 8, Number 3 — March 2010
March 1st, 2010
The All Crime Issue
In our cover article, attorney Bud Gardner looks back on My career in crime. In Even I am a criminal, Greg Roberts observes that practically everything has been criminalized. In Crimes against the person, Rosemary McLeish deplores the fact that almost every woman has been the victim of sexual assault at some time in her life.
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March 1st, 2010
BY JOHN M. DANIEL
IN THE AJAX BUILDING
A dame shaped like Centerfold Barbie glided into my office. “Mr. Blank,” she purred in an upper-class English accent, “I’m Josephine Toy. My family has lost its family tree. Can you help us?”
“I know nothing about English trees, Mrs. Toy,” I answered. “Just the ones in northern Minnesota.”
“It’s Miss.” She tossed an envelope onto my desk, then turned to leave. Her jeans were so tight I could read the tattoos on her buttocks: “Right,” “Left,” in that order.
“Those are instructions, Mr. Blank,” she said over her shoulder. “So you can get in touch with me.”
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