Edited by Otto Penzler

THE son of murdered Irish mobster Mickey Spillane has fallen to his death out the window of his sixth-floor New York apartment, police and his uncle said.

The son of murdered Irish mobster Mickey Spillane has fallen to his death out the window of his sixth-floor New York apartment, police and his uncle said.

Cyd Charisse, the long-legged beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died today in Los Angeles aged 86.