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had every reason to turn detective

Count Janos Polanyi

The buyer: the Modern Art Museum of New York - a dynastic institution as secretive as it is incestuous

A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project - a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders

Blood Lies Rare Death and Mr Pickwick isDido loads baby Ben and his toys into the van and drives down to rural Somerset to spend a couple of restful weeks with a cousin. Ally and her husband have moved there to keep an eye on his old parents who live in the local manor house where, four years ago, the family's youngest son shot and killed an intruder in the library. He is about to turn up after having served a term for manslaughter. And there are all sorts of chickens coming home to roost