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Lies, Money, Ghosts And Dirt

Helen Osborne BENEATH MULHOLLAND by David Thomson Little, Brown, £20, pp. 300 I t's the Pacific Blues,' said Christopher Isherwood when I mentioned that my sunny disposition......

Four Studies In Scarlet

William Fiennes RIVERS OF BLOOD, RIVERS OF GOLD by Mark Cocker Cape, £20, pp. 416 W hen stout Cortes marched on Tenochtitlan in November 1519, the popu- lation of the Mexican......

The Eternal Thickening Plot

Nigel Spivey CONSPIRACY by Daniel Pipes Free Press /Simon & Schuster, £16.99, pp, 258 H illary Clinton's claim of a right-wing plot to supply a trail of sleaze-raddled houris in......