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Paradise Postponed combines some of the social sweep of Brideshead with the hugger-mugger of Rumpole, the overweight, conniving and lovable Old Bailey barrister. The novel's central mystery emerges after the death, in 1985, of Simeon Simcox, 80, Anglican rector of Rapstone Fanner, a village some two hours' driving time west of London. The clergyman's will contains a staggering surprise. He has left nothing to his wife Dorothy or his two grown sons Henry and Fred. Instead, the ardent Socialist once known as "the Red Rector of Rapstone" has bequeathed all of his shares in the family-owned...
...preposterously. The son of an accountant at the Simcox brewery, trained to replicate his father's footsteps, Leslie senses the postwar crumbling of old barricades and makes his moves. He joins the local Young Conservatives, never minding that most of his colleagues despise him. He courts and wins Charlotte Fanner, the awkward and unhappy daughter of the village's titled landowner. He grows rich through investments and gains political power, but he does not win the respect of those who know him best. As Dorothy Simcox preaches to her husband, "Perhaps God made people like Leslie Titmuss...
...little Iowa towns during some of the coldest and snowiest weather anyone there can remember. "The harshness of the Iowa winter has totally dominated the filming," says Lange. "The subfreezing temperatures day after day brought home a certain physical reality that matches the economic plight of the Midwestern fanner." The project has brought together Lange's longstanding interests in the Depression and the decline of the American farmer. Once on the scene, the Minnesota-born actress, who likes to get away from it all at her wilderness log cabin south of Duluth, soon found herself as much at home...
...Nancy Richardson and by more than a dozen other aliases, are being sought by federal authorities for an attempt to extort $1 million from McNeil Consumer Products Co., the makers of Tylenol, with a blackmail note saying that the payoff could "stop the killing." Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner has called Lewis "a prime suspect" in the murders as well. Lewis was already wanted in Kansas City on charges involving credit-card and land swindles last year. In 1978 he was freed on a legal technicality despite evidence linking him to a Kansas City mutilation slaying...
...laced with cyanide. Food and Drug Administration officials suspect that someone unconnected with the manufacturer tampered with the drug; by their reasoning, the killer bought Extra-Strength Tylenol over the counter, inserted cyanide in some of the capsules, then returned the bottles to store shelves. Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner suggests that "a disgruntled employee in the production chain" was the more likely culprit. Whatever the method and motive, the killer clearly knew what he was doing. In each case, the red half of the contaminated capsule was discolored and slightly swollen. When opened, the capsules emitted the telltale almond...