Hints and tips:
...Feeling like a detective, I was tweedy of garment and beaky of nose, looking for clues everywhere, not so much in search of criminals — they are all too obvious — no, more for signs of life and of how to...
...Edwards’ novel is a wonderful mash-up of genres, fusing a proper, well-plotted detective yarn with prehistoric blood and thunder pulp fiction action....
...Selections by Tim Hayward … GARDENING Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers, by Teri Dunn Chace and Robert Llewellyn, Timber Press, RRP£20/$29.95 Flower porn....
...The resulting controversy led to the departure of HP’s then-chairman, Patricia Dunn, and hours of testimony by Ms Dunn, Mr Hurd and others on Capitol Hill....
...Ms Dunn and four others are facing criminal charges including identity theft for their role in the scandal. All five pleaded not guilty....
...Ms Dunn and others involved in the HP mole hunt came under criminal investigation last month after the company said private detectives working to uncover the source of the leaks had posed as board members...
...Patricia Dunn, HP’s former chairman, and four others were charged in connection with the scandal. All five pleaded not guilty....
...Mr Gentilucci and private detectives declined to testify on Thursday....
...However, she said she had been told that “phone records were one of the key techniques being used in the investigation, along with ‘relationship-mapping’ and what struck me as old-fashioned detective work...
...Both Ms Dunn and Mr Hurd have apologised publicly for the use of improper techniques by the HP board’s investigators....
...And private detectives playing dirty tricks to secretly monitor the telephone calls of independent directors. Are these the salacious ingredients of an undiscovered Ian Fleming spy novel?...
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