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Higgins, who turned a prosecutors knowledge of lowlife crooks into gritty boston crime novels that unfolded in the gamy dialect of the citys hoodlums and cops. Higgins, who turned a prosecutors knowledge of lowlife crooks into gritty boston crime novels that unfolded in the gamy dialect of the citys hoodlums and cops, was found dead on saturday at his home in milton, mass. Patterson began using the pseudonym jack higgins in the late 1960s. Higginss matchless ear for dialogue often overshadows the way his art relies on digressive anecdotes for its garrulous music and its flavorsome sense of reality. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading bombers law. Higgins masterpiece about jerry doherty and his trip to vegas that puts him eighteen grand in the hole. Education george higgins studied at rockland high school and graduated in 1957.
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