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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killed in the trenches of World War I; Michael, the most brilliant, drowned at Oxford, possibly as the result of a suicide pact with another student; Peter jumped in front of a London subway train in 1960. As Birkin unfolds the darkening drama, his book becomes a psychological thriller. The biographer's own style is self-effacing, and he is content to let the characters tell much of their history in let ters. But such reticence does not obscure the fact that J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys is one of the year's most complex and absorbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Man | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Ostensibly a thriller, The French Atlantic Affair poses a hypothetical question that only a TV producer could concoct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Listing Ship of Sweeps | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...Patriots' Chris Carson slipped past Harvard's Rony Sebok, 4-6, 3-6, while Jackie Korrigan struggled to beat Helen Najarian, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, in a thriller at sixth singles...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Racquetwomen Nip UMass, 5-4 | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

...blue IBM Selectric, which he totes between a house in Florida and a summer fishing camp on a lake in New York's Adirondacks. MacDonald's wife, Dorothy Prentiss, is an artist. He has long since shed any resentment against the other Macdonald, that more critically esteemed thriller writer whose real name is not John Ross Macdonald at all but Kenneth Millar. ("At least," allows John D., "the guy is literate, even if he does keep hitting the same barrel.") The real MacDonald is a graduate of Syracuse University, the Harvard School of Business Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mid-Life Surge of McGee | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Every McGee novel, from the first, The Deep Blue Goodbye (1964), has had a hue in its title. MacDonald explains that this is a mnemonic device to help readers avoid buying the same book twice, an all too familiar experience for thriller addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mid-Life Surge of McGee | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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