Word: tortuousness
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...medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life for them, and the doctor brings it about with a slow poison. Through tortuous labyrinths, accompanied by an idiot's violin whining of life and death, the guilty pair develop their deeds from dark sins to a triumph over destiny...
...John Mark is the struggle of every man with his own will. The story is a weird allegory of the soul battles of man, a daring objectification of the subconscious. It is also an insidious pitfall for the unwary reader of detective stories who may stumble unsuspectingly on its tortuous analyses of the human intelligence. As an experiment, its courage and interest cannot be denied...
Then shifting to the Experts Plan, he called it "a tortuous, complicated, diabolical, infernal combination of bubbles?the most colossal super-bubble modern history has produced...
...establishes a girl (Florence Eldridge) in an apartment which has every luxury but a marriage certificate. Then comes a series of sometimes tortuous incidents and in the end he loses the girl, his business, his partner, whose wife has meanwhile cast a halo over the proceedings by her faithfulness, except for a flare-up to show she is human...
...NEXT ROOM?Another of those tortuous mysteries in which the guilty individual is not exposed until five minutes before eleven...