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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This baleful opinion is expressed by a captive member of the Dutch Parliament. The tour of inquiry also includes clergymen, a woman college president, a journalist, an English don, a U.S. Senator and a Middle East expert from Buffalo. The art collectors are mostly codgers who, among them, own a modest share of the world's old masters. It is not easy: "The penalty of owning great works of art, or even itsy-bitsy ones, was that the minute anything out-of-the-way happened, your thoughts flew to them like a mother bird to the nest...
There have been lawyer-detectives and priest-detectives and even jockey-detectives, but perhaps the most intriguing blend of workaday occupation and avocational sleuthing is Charles Paris, an invention of English Writer Simon Brett. Charles is an actor-detective, perhaps the first and last of his breed. Performers are generally too self-absorbed to be much use in searching other people's motives...
...chance to do those set pieces that distinguish his books, notably one in which a domineering talk show host is reduced to helpless blithering by a deftly counterpunching old comic (who is an admirably wise and well-developed character) and another satirizing those ghastly award shows that blight English telly as depressingly as they...
...Gaulle) but by his air of controlled tension, steely discipline, and self-control, as if he were a coiled spring. He conveyed an easy casualness, which, however, did not deceive the careful observer. The quick smile, the comprehending expression that made clear he understood English without translation, the palpable alertness, were the features of a man who had had burned into him by a searing half-century the vital importance of self-possession. I greeted him at the door of the guesthouse and ostentatiously stuck out my hand. Chou gave me a quick smile and took...
...refined the text until at 8:10 a.m., concluding a nearly nonstop session of 24 hours, we had agreed on the main outline. We had scheduled our departure for 9 a.m. Chou took me to the door of the guesthouse and spoke to me for the first time in English: "Come back soon for the joy of talking...