Talk:One-armed bandit murder

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A fact from One-armed bandit murder appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 June 2008, and was viewed approximately 3,724 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East England, inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based?

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Details?[edit]

This article needs some details of the actual crime. Psi edit (talk) 10:36, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Iffy reference to Get Carter[edit]

How can it have inspired the film when Get Carter was a rendition of the book Jack's return home by Ted Lewis? I know that there is a claimed link between the book and this crime, but I've not seen any good reference.