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...Memphis drivers are insane. Carsstop for pedestrians in Cambridge; in Memphis,drivers truly believe that society would be betteroff without stupid jaywalkers. Even the streetsare weird, changing names at several points (unionchanges to Walnut Grove, Ridgeway to HickoryHill...
...Hilton Ridgeway, 41, never even got a job in the Northwest. He resigned as a computer programmer in Albany and moved to Oregon with his wife and four children last June, expecting to find a new job easily. After several months of looking, he tried to enlist in the Army, but was too old. Just before Christmas, Ridgeway found six weeks of work at $3.35 an hour on a Christmas tree farm. He doesn't like to recall that until recently he made $30,000 a year...
Carter "has wrapped himself in the American flag, draft registration, and the politics of the cold war," as Alexander Cockburn and James Ridgeway of The Village Voice wrote last week. He has understandably--in the context of the American political system--channeled the confusion to advance his reelection prospects, incapacitating his opponents by playing the "Rose Garden Strategy" and acting "presidential" to perfection. The nationalism has been all-consuming; Americans have forgotten about banalities such as inflation. As The New Republic...
...cruise. One night in the saloon she shoots her ex-lover in the leg, dropping the gun on the floor in panic. The doctor leads Fiance away, while the socialite's companion (a nurse) looks after Mia. When the Marxist goes for the gun, it's missing. Next morning, Ridgeway is found shot, with a J drawn in blood on the wall next to her. But it can't be Jackie, who was in sight of the nurse all night. Elimination time...
...husband can't walk with a broken leg. The doctor? He had a motive, which Poirot overheard while eavesdropping, but he seems too weakwilled to kill. The Marxist--who Poirot heard saying in a just world Ridgeway "would be killed as a warning to the others"--possible, but unlikely. The maid, who discovered the body, might have done it, since Ridgeway would not give her her salary and let her go to meet her husband-to-be. How about the socialite, who might have done it to get the pearls, which are discovered missing? Who knows...