Word: crichton
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...Great Train Robbery, Crichton...
...Great Train Robbery, Crichton...
...Crichton (3) 4-Shardik, Adams (5) 5-Centennial, Michener (4) 6-Shogun, Clavell (7) 7-The Eagle Has Landed...
This season's most agreeable literary game is the counterfeiting of Victorian novels. From Brian Moore (The Great Victorian Collection) to Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery), no artificer plays the game more entertainingly than the writer who calls herself Leonie Hargrave. The pseudonym, notes the publisher coyly, "may be said to be the Maiden Name of an author both prolific and much praised for work in other modes...
...preposterous marriage in her early 20s. Many novels attempt to be what they are not-the log of a whaling voyage, the writhings of a student who murders an old pawnbroker-and thus all are stratagems of a kind. But Hargrave's, Moore's and Crichton's constructs are far more elaborate, since they soberly imitate the genteel literary conventions and taboos of a century...