Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vicious characters, jailers and jailed, are often splendid company, though the protagonist, who calls himself Count La Ruse, is bedeviled by his author's insistence that, like the Pirates of Penzance, he is an authentic and fundamentally virtuous nobleman "who has gone wrong." His vis-a-vis, the jailer's daughter, is a salty bit of mutton, a lively dollop of trollop, when she is not made to work at it too hard. Other scoundrels are beautifully done, notably an ineffable poisoner who comes at first glance amazingly close to success in his function of representing Unashamed Ultimate Evil...