Word: sleuthing
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...scene is the new exurbia outside Paris, where a saucy mini-gratte-ciel apartment building full of affluent city commuters not only scrapes the sky but rubs nearby villagers and the demoralized peasantry the wrong way. Henri Castang, Freeling's new sleuth, is a low-key public servant who, like Van der Valk, cites Proust and Dickens without sounding pretentious...
...where the historic action is.) Le Carré heightens suspense by lowering the number of suspect moles to two. The remorseless world of international espionage is thus transformed into something very like a traditional English detective story with the suspects figuratively locked in the English country house as the sleuth (Smiley) pokes around and the tantalized spectators wonder if he will dare pin it on the butler...
...once made his living heading off plagiarism suits for a film company-by proving that both plaintiff and defendant had stolen from older sources. He now makes a most convincing case that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ex-eye doctor who created the world's most famous sleuth, was really "a compulsive self-revealing allegorist." Rosenberg unearths both hard and agreeably circumstantial evidence that Conan Doyle modeled the evil Professor Moriarty on Friedrich Nietzsche -not because the philosopher was a criminal but because Doyle's Vic torian conservativeness was offended by Nietzsche's ideas about Ubermenschen...
...Sleuth, Friday and Saturday...
...Sleuth. I hated the play, but Olivier and Caine are supposed to be great. A tricky idea, made more so here since movies are so tricky...