The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York tracks. (si.com)
Backed by a screenplay from Denis Lehane (Shutter Island, Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone), who adapted from his own short story «Animal Rescue», The Drop is a nerve - wracking shadow game that puts the players at the forefront and lets the underlying crime elements serve as a guide to move those characters into different lights. (silverscreenriot.com)
Steampunk is its own form of genre - blending, combining fantasy with historical fiction (typically set in the Victorian era), but when you add a thriller or hard - boiled crime element into the mix, you definitely kick it up a notch. (booklistonline.com)