Word: switcheroo
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Remember: when Renee was amateur proctologist Richard Raskind, her only claim to fame was being voted America's eleventh least masculine man by the Department of Defense. Who ever heard of her? Then she gets the old switcheroo, and vwallah! She becomes an overnight bombshell--famous the world over for her rowdy racqueteering. She really took the ballboys by storm. She was voted America's most famous and respected female athlete by Ladies Home Journal--and she'd only been a woman for 24 days...
...comes Sleeping Murder, the other manuscript that slumbered in the vault for roughly 40 years. It has a switcheroo, all right. The good news is that Miss Marple does not die at all. Instead she was last seen looking out on the harbor at Torquay (where Agatha Christie was born). Less welcome is the news that in this final book she barely comes to life...
Indeed, the bewildered Tigers began to muddle about the goal mouth after the switcheroo had been completed, and an opportunistic Steve Hines (number 25) took advantage of the situation to put the Crimson on the scoreboard...
...they are not the work of an isolated madman but of a self-appointed death squad, members of Harry's own San Francisco police department who have grown impatient with the delays and niceties of the rule of law. This gives Harry an opportunity to pull the old switcheroo. Unlikely as it seems, he announces that for all his notorious individualism he believes in working for change through the system...
Saturday, The Crimson sports page printed an article entitled "Dake It or Leave It," a column alleged to have been written by M. Deacon Dake. In fact, Dake was unaware that a gathering of slimey newts were scheming a deceptive copy switcheroo. Apologies from the plotters have been accepted by Dake for this discrediting character assassination and all is again normal in the cube...