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...This Sweet Sickness, The Blunderer, A Dog’s Ransom, Edith’s Diary and the Ripley books are works of wonder: not just tales of crime, murder or detection (sometimes not even that) but intricate structures...
...The backers wanted a just ransom for their costly hostage, as well as a resolving of more complex proprietorship issues. Liberation finally arrived....
...Wim Wenders’ The American Friend does an early polish on the odd-couple homicide tale — Ripley (Dennis Hopper) conscripting a leukemic Hamburg picture-framer as fellow assassin in a tale of blackmail and...
...A deal between Labour and the Scottish National party could see the country held to ransom and would undermine the stability of the UK....
...Dennis Holt, Beazley’s chairman, acknowledges “achieving profitable growth is not easy in the current insurance market”....
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