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Reybold offers a mystery story, complete with a classic detective-hero: retired Scotland Yard Inspector Charles Darby, visiting America while writing his memoirs. Darby is invited to present his findings on Chappaquiddick at a cocktail party hosted by P. Faulkner Truliman. Truliman, a Long Island multimillionaire, arranges for members of the party to read selected portions of the testimony. Darby moderates and points out relevant pieces of evidence; placing the testimony in chronological order and marshalling a string of 92 "facts." These "facts" are the pieces of a complex jigsaw puzzle that Darby reassembles in the last chapter...
...creature who supposedly lives there; climbers and explorers have tried, with a similar lack of success to establish the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. But no creature has been sought so assiduously as "Nessie," the Loch Ness Monster, a mysterious beast first reported in Scotland's Loch Ness in 565 by St. Columba. Now a monster maven from Boston named Robert Rines has finally achieved a degree of success in the hunt for Nessie. Although he has not actually brought the monster to bay, Rines has produced what he believes are pictures of Nessie...
...deciding factor. A Chrysler shutdown would have added to unemployment at a time when the British jobless rate already stands above the politically sensitive 1 million mark. Apparently equally important to Wilson was the possibility that a layoff of the 7,000 employees at the Chrysler plant in Linwood, Scotland, would give a potent political issue to Scottish nationalists and thus endanger several Labor seats that Wilson needs to maintain his slim majority in Commons...
...Lonely Circus. The Long Green Theatre Company of Edinburgh, Scotland presents a blend of circus, dance and participatory theater. Performances December...
...stand you a pint." If Charley it is, chances are he'll wish he'd stuck to grinding hamburger. That is, if the viewer rings up the number flashed on the screen. The Charleys who appear on this London television show, Police 5, are wanted by Scotland Yard. Sitting-room sleuths see replicas of stolen property and real-life crimes re-enacted on their screens, and they are invited to phone in ideas...