jamescookenotthatone

jamescookenotthatone OP t1_iwg67jy wrote

In case you are wondering, noone went to jail over billions in fraud.

Some things of note,

>The lab's tests showed that gold in one hole had been shaved off gold jewelry

and for something weird,

>Walsh moved to the Bahamas in 1998, still professing his innocence. Two masked gunmen broke into his home in Nassau, tying him up, and threatened to shoot him unless he turned over all his money. The incident ended peacefully but three weeks later, on June 4, 1998, Walsh died of a brain aneurysm.[19][20]

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jamescookenotthatone t1_itchw5c wrote

It says the last time one of his works was adapted was in 1921. Just looking at the summaries' of his novels and they seem to focus primarily on American coming of age stories and political machinations. I wonder how well they'd translate to modern films.

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