Word: penkethman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, ostensibly to pursue medical research, but actually to deliver money and a message from the U. S. Communist Party to their shattered comrades in France. On the boat with him travel M. de la Penthièvre, most potent minister of the new king; Mr. Penkethman, aged but acute sleuth connected with the League of Nations; Cassie Mathers, a lively young artist making her first trip abroad...
...Sleuth Penkethman knows all about Walter from the start, drops ambiguous warnings in his ear about Penthièvre, suggests it might avert suspicion if Leroy and Cassie appeared to be lovers. Nothing loth, they do their best to keep up appearances, soon find themselves actually falling in love. Towards the end of the voyage the ship's radio brings news of the king's assassination in Paris; then denies it. Penthièvre and Penkethman grow more & more ambiguous; Leroy and Cassie remain naive and amorous. When they get to Paris the lovers are first delighted, then...
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