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...sessions with the committee, the clandestine talks in England between the African National Congress and the government, the back-channel communications between Mandela and the a.n.c. in exile, the trepidation of Botha and the apparent transformation of his successor, De Klerk-possesses the drama and intrigue of a diplomatic whodunit. Sparks uncovers fresh details about Mandela's secret outings around Cape Town with his jailers (one of whom covertly brought the grandfatherly prisoner home to meet his two small children), the vital role of Mandela's courtly lawyer, George Bizos, and the courageous actions of the wily Mac Maharaj-Mandela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...Barbara, a tough-doll beautician; Eddie, a shady dealer in antiques; the patrician Mrs. Shubert; and two other salon customers who are soon revealed as detectives. They're staking out the building's upstairs tenant, Isabel Czerny, a reclusive concert pianist. Sure enough, the unseen Isabel is murdered. O.K.-whodunit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDER MOST PROFITABLE | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...shape in the fog: an intelligent, physically powerful, driven individual who was abused sexually as a child but raised in a strictly religious family. The hunt is on, with much clambering over rooftops, chasing about in cabs and calashes, and long, meditative dinners at Delmonico's. Soon (as whodunit tradition dictates) the investigators themselves are being hunted -- by rogue cops and underworld enforcers; by ambiguous religious operatives representing powers and principalities with no interest in solving the crimes; and, it becomes horribly clear, by the same night stalker they themselves are trying to capture. And at about this time, Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A Case for Sherlock Freud | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Shear Madness. Indefinite run. This audience-participant whodunit is about the murderer of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is set. Charles playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Call 426-5225 for tickets and more information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around Harvard | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Shear Madness. Indefinite run. This audience-participant whodunit is about the over murder of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is St., Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Call 426-5225 for tickets and more information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around Harvard | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

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