Word: ambush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intrigue-ridden region that the Orient Express never quite reached-the Orient. As he is so fond of doing, British Author Ambler begins with a fragile seed of evil: a cache of arms established in Malaya by Communist terrorists after World War II. The terrorists are killed in an ambush, and the arms dump is lost. But a thoughtful Indian plantation clerk deduces that it must exist, and to satisfy his curiosity begins to search for it. Months later the clerk finds the weapons, still unrusted, and he feels that it would be a pity to turn such a windfall...
...killing Barbara Finch. When Cody failed to act, the prosecution contended. Finch and Carole decided to do the job themselves. They assembled the "murder kit" in an attaché case: rope, carving knife, drugs, surgical gloves, .38-cal. shells, hypodermic syringes and needles. The plan, declared Prosecutor Whichello: ambush Barbara, knock her out with Seconal, inject a fatal air bubble into her bloodstream, and then put her behind the wheel of her car and push it off the cliff. Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near the Finch garage. She rushed out, saw Barbara lying...
Along a narrow trail in the jungle of darkest New Guinea, pith helmet set at a jaunty angle, strides the lithe young figure of Errol Flynn. Suddenly the dark wall of foliage opens, and a hail of spears comes streaming through. Ambush! The native bearer next to Flynn falls dead with a spear through his belly, and Flynn is struck in the foot by a poisoned arrow. Not a whit dismayed, the hero leaps behind a tree, whips out his revolver and starts firing. With the first shot he brings down one of the nasty savages. The rest of them...