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Little clues-the neatness with which the noose was tied, an error in the cost of secondhand motorcycles-slowly indicate the dead man's connection with a drug ring. Respected citizens become criminal suspects, while the true murderer seems guilty only of an act of reason. In the end, just desserts are separated from legal justice. Van de Wetering, writing with pace, freshness and laconic precision, clearly relishes the ironies. Nor is he done with them. Happily, he promises to bring back the appealing De Grier and Grijpstra in sequels to confront more of life's mysteries...
...Nixon urged her husband to burn the Watergate tapes. Muriel Humphrey, who heard secondhand that Hubert had decided to run for President in 1968, sent him a sarcastic telegram: "Let me know if I can be of help." And a woman overnight guest at the L.B.J. ranch was awakened in bed by a familiar drawl, "Move over−this is yore President...
...deal with, and Richards and Goodman avoid them. Goodman wrests a standard mystery plot from the book that Chandler considered his best. Richards uses it as an excuse for a sort of 1940s masquerade. Watching this movie has approximately the same effect as being locked overnight in a secondhand clothing store in Pasadena. There is an awful lot of dust and, after a while, the dummies look as if they are moving...
...beginning, anyway, Wodehouse knew about the world of butlers and country houses only secondhand. His father was a judge in Hong Kong, and Wodehouse and his three brothers spent their boyhoods with relatives in England. He went to Dulwich College, a good but not famous public school near London; he was all set to attend Oxford, when the Indian rupee, on which his father's pension was pegged, collapsed. Instead, he got a job at the London office of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Unhappy at the bank, he began writing. In 1902 he published his first novel...
Treasure Chests. Secondhand shoppers are discovering that thrift shops are often treasure chests of remarkable goods. Coats with real mink collars are sometimes found among last year's ratty tweeds; Ming vases have been discovered on shelves next to neo-Woolworth butter dishes. Emily Cadra, manager of Everybody's, recalls the time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only...