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...mayhem is discreetly offstage, and the detective is more likely to be a canny old woman than a boozy middle-aged man. Of the many imitations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, none has been quite so slippery and criminous as Melita Pargeter, a white-haired, well-heeled widow of a burglar whom Brett beguilingly introduced in 1987's A Nice Class of Corpse. Having skewered the pretenses of her fellow residents of a retirement hotel in that volume, she returns in Mrs, Presumed Dead (Scribner's; 248 pages; $16.95) to expose the follies of an executive suburb where...
...Elizabeth Taylor, the woman he obsessed over but could not stay married to. Yet both personalities come alive in Melvyn Bragg's meticulous biography. Not many surprises can remain about a man who spent a life in the headlines. But the raw material made available by Burton's widow included letters and 350,000 words of diaries. That unforgettable speaking voice turns out to have been matched by a colorful and trenchant writing voice. This is not exactly Burton's autobiography. But 'tis enough, 'twill serve...
...mischief on Capitol Hill are not exactly rare, the allegations that surfaced last week about the sexual conduct of an Ohio Congressman came as something of a shock. In a conversation secretly videotaped by a Columbus television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter, now 17. "I couldn't understand a man in your position, why you're messin' around with these teenagers," said Coffman. Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this week: "I didn't really know she was a teenager...
...them took the advertising campaign personally. Last week Kenneth Noid, 22, walked into a Domino's Pizza shop in Chamblee, Ga., with a .357 Magnum revolver and took two employees hostage. When police arrived, he demanded $100,000 in cash, a getaway car and a copy of The Widow's Son, a 1985 novel about secret societies in an 18th century Parisian prison...
Despite pleas for calm from his widow Coretta Scott King, blacks throughout urban America turned to violence. "When white America killed Dr. King, she declared war," said radical Stokely Carmichael. The nation's cities -- at least 125 in 28 states -- caught fire. Washington, Chicago, Baltimore and Kansas City, were hardest hit. More than 65,000 federal troops were required to quell the disorders, which raged for a week...