Word: gerard
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...Capt. Gerard Walsh, a state police chaplain, said in the eulogy that Mattaliano would be missed by his colleagues, and talked about his "fairy tale" marriage with his wife, Jennifer, also astate trooper...
...result of the operations, says the Rev. Gerard Nelliyotukonam of the Don Bosco Social Service Society, hundreds of Villivakkam residents suffer abdominal pains, weakness and generally poor health. Says he: ``It is terrible that these people have to struggle to live by selling their body parts. Most waste the money on drink and shoddy goods and are soon teetering back on the verge of destitution anyway...
...best whodunits, murderous motives abound. No one is very surprised when Gerard Etienne, arrogant young managing director of London's Peverell Press, is found dead with a snake around his neck. Most of the suspects in the case benefit from his death in one way or another: the question is, who is capable of committing murder...
...Gerard, at the time of his death, had been planning to sell Innocent House, the Press' historic home, and his four reluctant partners come under close scrutiny. Frances Peverell, Gerard's discarded mistress and heir to the Peverell name, will permit the sale of the Press only over her dead body--or Gerard's. James deWitt, fiction editor, may be willing to help Frances. Claudia Etienne, Gerard's sister, needs money her brother controls to satisfy the "boy toy" she wants to marry. Gabriel Dauntsey, poet and poetry editor, faces eviction from his home of thirty years if Gerard lives...
Frances Peverell, a figure of "gentle, old-fashioned formality," lives a flight of stairs away from the equally reserved Gabriel Dauntsey. They see "less of each other than if they had lived miles apart." Dalgleish recognizes Jean-Philippe Etienne, Gerard's father, as the "true recluse" he himself sometimes shows signs of becoming. Isolation in the wake of death is more than poignant, and the abandoned homes of the murder victims, as James describes them, provide the most eloquent counterpoint to living loneliness...