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...plot centers around the disappearance of beautiful Laurel Lennox, third generation heiress to an immense oil fortune. Laurel is slightly unbalanced (sensitive, if you prefer), and at first it seems she might have vanished in reaction to an oil slick formed by the family company's offshore drilling operation. Then her father receives a ransom call, which would suggest this is a kidnapping. But fifteen years ago, Laurel was involved in a similar kidnapping which, it turns out, she masterminded herself to extort money from her parents...
...while Macdonald's detective, the super sympatico Lew Archer, is finding out about the burning of a ship off Okinawa in World War II the murder of Laurel's husband's mother over twenty years before, the love affairs of Laurel's father and uncle, and the strange relationship between Laurel's husband and his cousin. With true Dickensian finesse, Macdonald (and Archer, too) weaves all these threads together until the real picture becomes visible...
...course stretches 26 miles, 385 yards, from Hopkinton past admiring Wellesley College females, up Heartbreak Hill to the screaming Eagles of Boston College and then down to the Prudential Center. Boston Mayor Kevin White will be waiting there with a laurel wreath and a bowl of beef stew--but no kisses--for the lucky winner...
...year than last. "Poaching generally involved hippies trying to live off the land, but now we are getting older people trying to combat the rising cost of meat," says a park warden. Last week 100 pheasants were filched from their pens at the Quemahoning Trap and Field Club at Laurel Mountain, Pa. Even hijackings have been reported. Burglars looted 420 canned hams from a tractor truck parked off Interstate 70 near Pittsburgh...
DUNSTER HOUSE DINING HALL, The Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Chaplin's The Tramp, Mar. 16, 17, 8 & 10, $1. Kiddie Show: Bonnie Scotland (Laurel and Hardy), Mar. 17, 10 a.m. and midnite, $.50 ($.25 at midnite showing with stub from Fri. or Sat. feature...