Word: interpolated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the canniest collectors of all are thieves, whose acquisitions from museums, galleries, churches and private homes are seldom recovered, despite intensive international police work. Interpol has an FBI-style Most Wanted list of stolen art works, some dating from 1938. Last week a priceless Tintoretto painting missing for nearly 30 years was recovered by the FBI in New York...
...describes how one by one, couples and lone tourists fell prey to the magic of Sobhraj. Sobhraj's powers are almost impossible to fathom--as even the author admits--but the naivete of those who fall into his trap is even harder to understand. "Months later," Thompson writers, "an Interpol detective in Paris, would study the case and wonder why in the name of God these poor people didn't figure out what was goin on?" When somebody finally does put the pieces together--the unlikely hero is a sniveling Dutch embassy employee--it is about ten people too late...
...family. But in truth, just about everyone in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey thought that the kidnaping was the darkest of black humor at best. One day last week a gravedigger discovered that the plot in which Charlie Chaplin was buried had been ravaged. Authorities flashed an Interpol alert for "unknown persons wanted for the unlawful removal of the mortal remains of Charles Chaplin," who died last Christmas...
...strange feeling when a call came in from the three-star Vikram Hotel. The agitated hotel manager complained that 20 French tourists registered at the hotel were vomiting and rolling about as if they were drunk. Worse, they were accusing the manager of having poisoned them. Tuli, remembering that Interpol had alerted police to a series of druggings and murders of tourists in India and Southeast Asia, rushed over to the Vikram. There he was struck by a peculiar fact: only one of the group, a man by the name of Alain Gauthier, had not got sick. Tuli arrested...
Although Bangkok police detained Gauthier and found passports and belongings of the victims in his apartment, he was let go, possibly after some money changed hands. Only after low-level diplomats in Bangkok became alarmed over the pattern of deaths among visiting tourists was Interpol notified. Thai authorities have said they will seek Gauthier's extradition, but in India he first faces an array of charges, including murder, for which he could be sentenced to death by hanging...