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...Dagliesh guesses, and as any astute mystery fan knows, appearances can be dangerously deceiving. Why would two men of such disparate social classes as Berowne and Mack join together in a suicide pact? Why had someone just weeks earlier sent Berowne a poison pen letter intimating his involvement in the deaths of his first wife, his mother's nurse and the family housekeeper...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: A Taste for Mystery | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

Sincerely, Your Pen Pal, Derek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...became one reason not to start a family of his own. The other, more powerful rationale was his attraction to writing. In this matter, Troyat is particularly poignant, one might even say Chekhovian: "What was a woman to him, no matter how desirable, when his life was all pen and paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Melancholy Life of Uncle Anton Chekhov | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Producer sits in his chair with the script and a red pen. As the others watch in silence (they are now too hoarse to talk), he crosses out the most expensive scenes...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: Roll Over Grover | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...dismayed and saddened to read in The New York Times that Associate Professor Alan Brinkley has been denied tenure. It seems unfair that with a stroke of his pen Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence can add Brinkley's name to the list of other stellar junior faculty members like Bradford Lee, Robert Watson, and Paul Starr who now grace the halls of universities like UCLA and Princeton after being refused tenure at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brinkley: Part 1 | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

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