by NRB | 11 Dec 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I was watching a History Channel documentary on notable crimes. This one dealt with the murder of Sir Harry Oakes in Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, in the early 1940s when the Duke of Windsor was Governor of the colony, an appointment made to keep the former king,...
by NRB | 14 Jun 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
A writer and his agent were having lunch in an up-market London restaurant a few years ago. The agent was paying. They started with oyster soup and moved on to Dover sole with a bottle of German Riesling. The writer, 45 or thereabouts, had published a string of...
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