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...Scott related it, Thorpe somewhat inexplicably told him to come to him in London if he ever needed anything. A year later Scott, then 21 and reeling from a nervous breakdown, visited Thorpe at his office at Westminster. Thorpe, then 32 and a rising young bachelor M.P. from North Devon, drove Scott to his mother's house in Surrey saying that there they could "talk about things more easily." That night, said Scott, Thorpe sent him off to bed with a copy of Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin's 1956 novel about homosexual love. Said Scott...
...Crown outlined its case, Thorpe (then, as now, the Liberal M.P. for North Devon) befriended Scott in 1961, took him to Thorpe's mother's house, and initiated an affair. It lasted "at least until 1963." But by 1965, a restive Scott was threatening to make the relationship public...
Bessell testified that further discussions of murder were carried on in 1969. Then, as Scott seemed less eager to reveal his relationship with Thorpe, the urgency of dealing with the problem diminished. But in 1973, said the prosecution, Scott moved to Thorpe's North Devon constituency and began to talk in the neighborhood about the liaison. In 1975, the Crown's prosecutor said, Thorpe's fellow defendant, Deakin, arranged a $20,000 murder contract with a former airline pilot, Andrew Newton, 31. The prosecution claims that Thorpe himself solicited money for the hit from an unwitting Liberal...
Thorpe had denied Scott's original homosexuality charge, but he shortly resigned as head of the Liberal Party, although he continued to serve as M.P. for North Devon. However, Scott also complained of a death threat, and police started a further investigation...
...plots are necessarily improbable, but I believe in making sure that they are not impossible." With Glimpses, his first detective story in a quarter-century, Crispin re-establishes his own flair for turning the unlikely into the inevitable. A grisly succession of murders, decapitations and other severances in a Devon village involves the rector, a retired major, a composer, a not-too-plodding constable, two detectives, two nymphomaniacs, sundry pig farmers, most of Fleet Street, a blackmailer, a local ancient -and Gervase Fen, an urbane Oxford don and literary critic who, as in previous Crispin novels, discreetly provides the ratiocination...