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...next week as one of the main defendants in a racketeering and conspiracy case against members of the Gambino crime family. While he can hardly consider that a welcome prospect, he may find it more seemly to stand trial as a would-be Godfather than as a common street mugger...
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...
Alejandro is an illusive character because his friends and enemies tell contradictory stories about him, but more important because the narrator repeatedly reminds the reader that his investigations are a preparation for lying, for conjuring a fiction. Such modernist hugger-mugger has great potential for tedium. But Vargas Llosa's lucid intellect and technical gifts allow him to toy with uncertainty and shuffle time with deceptive ease. A good deal of Peru's mournful history and wretched present are economically conveyed. Leaving the Museum of the Inquisition, the narrator is confronted by a score of beggars. "They constitute a sort...
...REVIEW OF Crime and Human Nature, "The Mugger and His Genes," reduces the arguments of the book to a heavy-handed call for harsher criminal penalties. But by ascribing to their book an unintended ideological content, he distorts the attempts of Wilson and Herrnstein to provide an objective criminology. Their theory sees criminal actions as results of rational judgment, and, most controversially, argues that factors such as low intelligence, sex, body structure, the reaction-time of one's autonomic nervous system, and inheritable psychotic or aggressive tendencies tend to correlate with criminality...
Harvard police have no suspects at the present time, but Hogewood has been asked to come down to the station on Wednesday and look at potential photographs of the mugger...