Word: plagiarist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom, naturally, gets murdered. Wolfe manages to trap the culprit while discoursing on U.S. haute cuisine and recounting such favorite recipes as sauce printemps and shad roe mousse Pocohontas. Plot It Yourself (1959) offers a revealing satire of the publishing industry as Wolfe uses literary detection to expose a plagiarist-killer. Triple Jeopardy (1952) is a collection of three taut novellas, of which the most intriguing is The Squirt and the Monkey, in which Wolfe's only witness to a murder is a monkey...
...Gargantua: lowering brows, a cast in one eye, rubbery sprawling lips, and a slide-away chin. Women fell all over him, and he returned the compliment. He attacked them in private, pawed them in public, on occasion bedded as many as three a day. He was a braggart, a plagiarist, a liar and a bully. He threw coffee in Publisher Horace Liveright's face and once challenged Sinclair Lewis to a duel. Maudlin music made him teary and flattery made him fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits...