Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is no small achievement for any novel. For what is essentially an espionage tale, it is a signal for rejoicing. In Arkady Renko, the U.S.S.R. finally has an exportable sleuth. In Martin Cruz Smith, 38, the U.S. at last has a domestic Le Carré. -By Stefan Kanfer...
...residence while working on a movie intended as the star's comeback after a miscarriage and a nervous breakdown. One of the locals is murdered at a reception they give, and a little later the director's secretary succumbs in unpleasant circumstances. Miss Marple, the spinster sleuth-played agreeably by Lansbury in a more subdued style than is her custom or that of her glorious predecessor in the role, Margaret Rutherford-solves the case, almost by remote control...
DIED. Victor Sen Yung, 65, San Francisco-born actor who played the "No. 1 Son" of Movie Sleuth Charlie Chan in the 1930s and 1940s and later was noted for his role as the cook Hop Sing on the long-running TV series Bonanza; of suffocation; in North Hollywood, Calif...
...Nobel Peace Prize, was a compulsive lover of complaisant young women. He was also in the pay of numerous foreign corporations bent on influencing U.S. foreign trade policy. The investigation into his murder is entrusted by President Robert Lang Webster to one of his aides, Ron Fairbanks. The sleuth is given authority to question even the President himself if necessary. Fairbanks, it happens, has an affair of the heart with the President's daughter Lynne. He also has a consuming hatred for the Haldermanic White House Chief of Staff, Fritz Gimbel, who may or may not have murdered...
Tell-it-all books on the Supreme Court may yet become a new publishing genre. Sales of The Brethren, the gossipy, 467-page "inside" look at the high bench by Watergate Sleuth Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, have soared since it was released by Simon & Schuster in December. Now the court is about to be shaken further by a book that may draw even more attention, if only because it was written by someone who really did have firsthand knowledge of the institution's personalities and practices: Justice William O. Douglas...