Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. David Carritt, 55. master sleuth of the old masters who rediscovered an unmatched array of rare and valuable paintings; of cancer; in London. Art historian, dealer and critic, Carritt had an unerring eye that enabled him to buy a misattributed Fragonard masterpiece at a public auction, under the noses of other top experts, at a tiny fraction of its present million-dollar value. "When you've become familiar with the work of a master, it's like recognizing a friend's handwriting," he once said. Among his finds were five Francesco Guardi canvases rolled...
...once a client of Meese's law firm in California. Indeed, Meese and Hickey tried to employ Manuel as a White House consultant not long after Reagan's Inauguration last year. Hickey put through a formal request to hire Manuel and gave the sleuth a temporary White House pass that was valid until April 1981. Hickey, whose duties include overseeing Air Force One and Camp David, says he needed Manuel to help him with internal security checks, a task that is usually handled by military officers. Other aides recall that Meese and Hickey wanted an outsider they could...
DEATHTRAP BEGS to be compared to Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, another closed-room, twist-filled thriller, and unquestionably loses out in the comparison. But with intricate plot twists (which unfortunately tend to fizzle toward the end), and some snappy dialogue, it makes a fair attempt at matching the wit and elegance of Shaffer's play. Tendorp, the psychic, adds a nice comic touch by dropping by to see Sidney at all the wrong times, and prophesying ominously about a dangerous playwright named "Smith-Collona." Cannon is suitably daffy as the gushing Myra, and Reeve is, well, a hunk. Caine...
...Sleuth--Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 p.m.; Leverett Dining Hall...
...Cross. For the uninitiated. Cross novels feature the redoubtable Kate Fansler, a tenured 16th-century English literature professor at a New York City university, much like Columbia. Fortyish, WASPish, with a casual marriage to an assistant district attorney and a prodigious capacity for alcohol. Fansler moonlights as an academic sleuth. Leaving details like fingerprints and forensics to the police. Fansler sleuths by intuition and cunning. She does not carry...