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...turns out, was the first part of an intended trilogy. Gainham's new book covers the postwar years until 1951. This time, unfortunately, she has broken the narrative rules she seemed to have mastered in the first book. She picks up two of her best characters, Actress Julia Homburg and Newspaper Editor Georg Kerenyi. But as if no longer trusting them to carry the story, she has invented a tepid narrator, a British security officer named Robert Inglis, and laid on a mystery-writer's plot that turns out to be a fictional version of Donald Maclean...
...really Rachel Ames, a successful mystery writer and the wife of an American journalist based in Central Europe. In the first volume of her trilogy she graduated from the rigors of a hackneyed suspense plot; for the moment she has regressed. The third volume will flash back to Julia Homburg's early career in Vienna's Burgtheater, a more likely subject than cold war soul-searching for the novel of manners the author does best...
...decolletage she sometimes sports in films. But when Actress Daliah Lavi, 25, arrived at Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival, she was dressed for another part: that of a gal who had just come from mod, mod London. "Fashion is crazy," said Daliah, who was wearing a jaunty black Homburg, calf-high boots and a sleeveless coat over a white shirt and a mini skirt. "I had to join in like this because when I walk down the street in Lon don without fashion, nobody notices me." Nonsense...
Rulon was an enthusiastic aviator, who held a commercial pilot's license. He was also interested in boats and motorcycles. A faculty note at the time of his retirement said: "The picture of Rulon astride his crimson motorcycle with a cigarette holder clenched in teeth and a homburg perched on his head is a legend among the inhabitants of Harvard Square...
Things get a little ridiculous with a raid on a trailer truck, in which a score of pretty boys and a silver-haired gent in a Homburg seem to be having a pitch-dark love-in. But the movie picks up again with a moving, gut-tightening scene in which Joe extracts a confession from the roommate, beautifully played by Tony Musante. By cracking the case, Joe makes lieutenant at last...