Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terror, insists the protagonist of this ingeniously macabre novel, is the % lodestone of the architect's art. It is a bizarre aesthetic, but then, Nicholas Dyer is hardly your everyday architect. A brooding protege of the great Christopher Wren's, he is carrying out a commission to design seven new churches in the London of the early 18th century. Despite this service to Christianity, Dyer's true, secret faith is satanism. In his crazed vision, those seven churches are temples built to appease the demons of hell, and he sees to it that their stones are washed by the blood...
Interspersed with this grisly tale, told in period prose, alternating chapters of the book unfold the somewhat grayer story of a 1980s police superintendent named Nicholas Hawksmoor. Another moody loner, Hawksmoor is investigating a series of murders at various 18th century churches, all built by Dyer (of whom he has never heard). The superintendent plunges into an intuitive pursuit in which he begins to identify with the killer. His prime suspect, often glimpsed around the churches, is the spectral figure of a derelict with a knack for drawing. Is it the ghost of Dyer? As Hawksmoor closes in, his overstrained...
...impact. Ackroyd, 36, a versatile English writer whose biography of T.S. Eliot was widely praised two years ago, has a gift for historical pastiche. His 18th century is a battleground where the rational temper of the modern world, championed by Wren, contends with the medieval occultism embraced by Dyer...
...mayor admitted inexpressible "disappointment" and "anguish" at the verdict. The superior-court jury was sequestered almost seven days before reaching its verdict, largely because it found confronting the evidence a "painful experience," as Juror Karen Dyer put it. In the end, the panel concluded that Hedgecock had 1) conspired to allow some $360,000 in illicit funds to be channeled into his 1983 campaign, and 2) lied over and over to cover up the scheme. The prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney Charles Wickersham, said that what clinched the verdict was a check for $3,000 made out to Hedgecock...
From his home in Mill Valley, Calif., anytime between 6 a.m. and midnight, Attorney Gregory Dyer can use his personal computer to check his balance at BankAmerica and transfer money between accounts. With his lap computer, Larry Lape, a business executive, does much of his personal banking from hotel rooms ; hundreds of miles away from his hometown Huntington National Bank in Columbus. Without leaving his home, Page Stodder, a Cleveland investment banker, can use his PC to pay bills from 82 different companies. Says Stodder: "It's faster than writing checks, putting stamps on envelopes and taking them...