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Story 1: "Trial and Error" - ?
Story 2: "Cheap at half the price" - ? (I thought it might have to do with
the mention of Red Cross on p.74, because herringbone can be a type of
cross-stitch, but this seems a bit weak)
Story 3: "Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm" - ?
Story 4: "Do Not Pass Go" - ?
Story 5: "Chunnel Vision" - the red Dorothy L Sayers book would be her book
"Five Red Herrings"
Story 6: "Shoeshine Boy" - Red Herring is the answer to the cryptic
crossword clue on p.152
Story 7: "You'll Never Live to Forget It" - it mentions the scarlet clupea
hareagus, the latin name for the herring
Story 8: "Never Stop on the Motor Way" - mentions a crimson kipper on p.202
Story 9: "Not for Sale" - ?
Story 10: "Timeo Danaos..." - ?
Story 11 "An Eye for an Eye" - ?
Story 12: "One Man's Meat" - ? (and is there supposed to be a "red herring"
in each ending)?
Also, funny that Archer mentions several stories are based on "known
incidents", when in fact they are in fact based on well know urban legends!
Would love to have any help on this!
Cheers,
Lee
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Jeffrey Archer... telling lies, surely not!?
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> Jeffrey Archer... telling lies, surely not!?
I'm sorry if I destroyed your image of a fiction-writer and perjurer....
(would insert winky smiley here if I thought for a second such was allowed
on this ng).
But it's interesting to wonder where fiction-writing and plagiarism
intersect, isn't it? As a massive fan of snopes.com, I have found myself
knowing exactly how many of Archer's short stories will end after reading
the first page. A classic example is "Never Stop on the Motorway" in Twelve
Red Herrings (car following and terrorising woman with high beams on turns
out to be good samaritan trying to alert her to a knief-wielding maniac who
crawled into her back seat when she wasn't looking). The story is *exactly*
as related in snopes.com as dating back many years, only plumped out
considerably. "Cheap at Half the Price" (TRH again), "An Eye for an Eye"
(TRH), and approximately half the stories in "To Cut a Long Story Short" can
all be found on snopes.com.
Oviously the ideas of these stories are not Archer's, but being urban myths
they have no discernible authors. There are no copyrights on these stories,
which are widely circulated via email and word-of-mouth.
And is Archer really so gullible as to belive that his short stories are
based on actual events as opposed to urban myths?
Cheers,
Lee