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Watergate thereby became not only an epic whodunit of daytime television but a political and constitutional struggle of historic dimensions. At stake was nothing less than the definition of presidential powers and the President's relationship to the two other, nominally coequal branches of Government. Nixon's refusal to divulge the White House records raised a constitutional question never before resolved in the republic's 197 years, a decision that might affect the conduct of Presidents yet unborn: To what extent can the Executive Branch maintain strict privacy in defiance of the other branches even if that...
...Connery is a detective who brings a peculiar passion to the pursuit. When a prime suspect (Ian Bannen) is captured, Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit...
Only reading period gives the January theater season much appeal, but there are a few things on his weekend which are good for more than just killing time. Sleuth is wrapping up its Boston run this week, a last chance to see the theatrical original. Only whodunit literati begrudge Anthony Shaffer his many tricks, other find it delightful. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest drew many critics' sneers when it opened off-Broadway. While the dramatization might not so nearly approach the greatness of Ken Kesey's novel, it's powerful enough on its own. Godspell keeps youthquaking along...
...book was The Pale Horse, a vintage Christie whodunit (1961) in which the villain plots to kill some factory workers with thallium, a tasteless, soluble and highly toxic substance that had never before been used on humans as a poison in Britain. The "fellow" was Graham Frederick Young, 24, who did precisely what Dame Agatha predicted could be done. Last month he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering two of his fellow workers at a small photographic-equipment factory in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, by dosing their tea and coffee with thallium...
...Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving investigation continued to twist like a whodunit written on a helix, the editors realized that a cover story on Irving was in the offing. Which artist should paint de portrait? The ideally ironic choice seemed to be Elmyr de Hory, Irving's neighbor on the Balearic isle of Ibiza and the subject of Fake!, Irving's book about a master art forger...