Word: denouement
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...months ago, no one suspected that Watergate was anything but an isolated incident, albeit an incident as despicable as any in the history of partisan politics. But as bits and pieces of the Watergate jigsaw puzzle fell into place, it became increasingly apparent that Watergate was actually the denouement of a highly successful campaign espionage team...
...understandably, for a menace to society. "I hate you so much it hurts," Suzy spits at Newman, struggling to summon an expression of pain to her ravishing countenance. Newman, looking carefully scruffy, like a Steiff animal mangled in the manufacturing, survives this as well as other abuse. The denouement finds him locked in deadly psychological combat with the bad guys in a bathysphere at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Although Newman eventually sweats out crucial information from the suffocating villains, the ending might still be called unhappy: he resurfaces...
This spring Irving Wallace parlayed the Gospel according to St. James into a ponderous bestseller. Now comes a man called Peter Van Greenaway with The Judas Gospel. Agnostic Wallace wears a cloying, counterfeit faith on his sleeve in The Word's mawkish denouement, but Van Greenaway has the courage - and the talent - to spill his venom straight. The result is a brisk, tough and intellectually provocative novel...
...never really find out Mossman has purposely left the resolution in a haze of perpetual speculation. We can only guess why he has left the denouement in need of another. Perhaps because he sees in Dawes's death a firmer resolution. More likely, because a great deal of his material is taken from his own life. Dawes Oldham Williams is Dow. But to continue Dawes's life in conjunction with the life of Mossman would only lead to the writing of a novel and not death. So Dawes finds life in Dow Mossman, to a point. This point of departure...
...identity, or any inkling of how she got into his apartment and his life. His exwife, his son, his parents, even his psychiatrist-all appear to Hibben in his delirium, prodding him inexorably toward the unpleasant Krafft-Ebing revelation concealed behind that coy yellow band. In the denouement there are traces both of Psycho and the Roger Ackroyd device: Are you sure you should trust the narrator? But Ellin conceals his key surprise in a phonetic note written by a distracted Mexican housemaid: Noscool sonic comic loc. Work that out and the solution may fall into place. Since the note...