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...peppers the otherwise inane conversation with his biting and volatile temper, lashing out at bungling subordinates and proving to be always a step ahead of the rest. With him and Caine back together on the screen again, the movie could have evolved into an action packed version of Sleuth, with two spies par excellance trying to outsmart one another...
What Silbey probably did not realize was that many of his conversations were being secretly recorded by Ralph Sharer, a freelance sleuth paid by Schiavone. Sharer, a former Government auditor, says he spied on Silbey and other staffers for more than two months in 1982. "I taped [Silbey] every time I talked to him," he claims. During that period, Sharer was working with the committee on two investigations unrelated to the Donovan case, a role that permitted him to act as a mole...
DIED. Rodolfo Siviero, 72, Italy's national art sleuth whose life mission was to recover his nation's stolen treasures, particularly those pilfered by the Nazis; in Florence. An agent of the underground Italian resistance during World War II, Siviero traced at least 2,000 works of art throughout the world in his lifetime, and saw that they were safely returned. Next year the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence will open a special museum with 200 pieces of Italian art, mostly paintings, that the relentless Siviero recovered after they vanished from the looted, private collections of Adolf Hitler...
DIED. Leonard Burt, 91, British detective who worked with the crack intelligence agency M15 during World War II and who later (1946-58) commanded Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch, which is responsible for security of the royal family; in London. As England's premier sleuth in the 1940s, Burt collared Traitors William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") and John Amery and Atomic Spies Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs. Quiet and affable, Burt had an uncanny knack for extracting incriminating information from suspects. In his memoirs, he wrote of the typical quarry: "In many cases, he is only...
DIED. Ross Macdonald, 67, writer of taut, psychologically acute detective novels; of Alzheimer's disease, which he had had for three years; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In such books as The Moving Target, The Gallon Case and The Chill, his sleuth Lew Archer roamed Southern California through false fronts and cracked surfaces to unearth his clients' dark familial sins and secrets that almost always led to murder. Born Kenneth Millar, he adopted his pseudonym after his wife Margaret became a successful mystery novelist. Though his early work echoed Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, his only peers among modern...