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...mystery is a bit formulaic: after several people display powerful motives to kill him, an eminent attorney collapses of an apparent heart attack. A canny elder discovers that the death was murder by poison, then proves that the killing is linked to a point of law. The villain is dragged in from relative obscurity near the end, and the summing-up could be briefer. But the characters are portrayed with wickedly informed satire, and by the rueful conclusion, Murphy has exhibited more than enough potential to do for the legal world what the tongue-in-cheek Emma Lathen mysteries have...
...when George and the elder Mr. Emerson unexpectedly show up as the new tenants of a vacant house in the Honeychurches' out-of-the-way village, Lucy and the plot are both thrown into a tailspin. Will she renounce the overly cerebral aesthete Cecil and find more physical and spiritual contentment with the earthy George? Will Lucy and George's brief encounter on the Tuscan hillside finally become public knowledge? Will Cecil fight for Lucy's hand or will he simply spend yet another hour in the Honeychurches' library reading up on Italian painting? Hmmmmm...
...many times, it's been the other way around," Coach Cleary said, recalling boyhood days as he waited anxiously outside the trainer's room for his mother to emerge. But come Saturday, the elder Cleary was back in the stands, and the pageant rolled...
...family-owned brewery, which may be worth (pounds)2 million, to one Leslie Titmuss, a local lad who - has clawed his way into national prominence as a Conservative M.P. and a Cabinet Minister. Dorothy and Fred are inclined to let the inexplicable matter drop. But Henry, the elder son and a well-known writer, is infuriated and promises a campaign aimed at "defeating the abominable Titmuss." That entails proving in court that his father was insane...
...characters are the combative, loving members of a middle-class family who are barely hanging on; a strong wind could blow them into the lower class. The issues being debated, mostly over meals, are whether the father (Ed Harris) should take a job out of town, whether the elder son (William O'Leary) should go to college or start adult life, and whether the younger (Anthony Rapp), a child actor, should enter an elite high school or embark on a national tour. (In one of Playwright Furth's slyer jokes, the unnamed play the boy is invited to join...