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Chicago Crime Story Pondering the hows and whys of crime novelist Eugene Izzi's suspicious death has become a popular parlor-game in Chicago. Izzi wrote under the name Nick Gaetano. As Rick Karr reports, discussion of Izzi's life and death in this way ...as a form of amusement... is an idea that deeply troubles his friends and colleagues.

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Pondering the hows and whys of crime novelist Eugene Izzi's suspicious death has become a popular parlor-game in Chicago. Izzi wrote under the name Nick Gaetano. As Rick Karr reports, discussion of Izzi's life and death in this way ...as a form of amusement... is an idea that deeply troubles his friends and colleagues.