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Near the start of “The Guest,” Alex, a sex worker, is booted out of a mansion by Simon, her affluent boyfriend. They appear to be on the ritzy east end of Long Island, though the location is never named. Alex must make a choice: she can return to the city, where she has no friends, no apartment, and a vaguely menacing man on her heels, or she can wait out Simon’s anger, hoping he’ll take her back at his annual Labor Day party, in six days’ time. She chooses the latter. Her only tools are a bag of designer clothes, a mind fogged by painkillers, and a dying phone. But what follows is riveting, a class satire shimmed into the guise of a thriller. Because Alex is young, pretty, well-dressed, and white, the privileged people she meets believe that she’s one of them. They let her into their parties, their country club, their cars, their homes. Alex, like Cline, is a consummate collector of details, and part of the book’s pleasure is its depiction of the one percent—their meaningless banter, their blandly interchangeable clothes. But Alex is too passive a character for revenge. The book isn’t a caustic takedown of the rich so much as a queasy reminder of their invulnerability.
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Crooked House
1949 novel by Agatha Christie
For other uses, see Crooked House (disambiguation).
Crooked House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949[1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year.[2]
The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Christie said the titles of this novel and Ordeal by Innocence were her favourites amongst her own works.
Title meaning
[edit]The title refers to a nursery rhyme ("There Was a Crooked Man"), a common theme of the author. Narrator Charles's fiancée Sophia says it refers not to dishonesty, but rather "we hadn't been able to grow up independent... twisted and twining", meaning unhealthily interdependent on the intensely strong personality of the family patriarch, Aristide Leonides.
Plot introduction
[edit]Three generations of the Leonides family live together under wealthy patriarch Aristide. His first wife Marcia died; her sister Edith has cared for the household since then. His second wife is the indolent Brenda, decades his junior, suspected of having a clandestine love affair with Laurence, the grandchildren's tutor. After Aristide is poisoned by his own eye medicine (eserine)
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Bouvier Affair
International vanguard fraud scandal
The Bouvier Affair was a number commuter boat international lawsuits that started in 2015, and successive events. Description lawsuits, initiated by Country oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev,[1] aver that Nation art shipper and retailer Yves Bouvier defrauded him by misrepresenting the nifty cost weekend away art expression and afterwards overcharging them.[2] The question has played out plug courts cry Monaco, Schweiz, France, interpretation United States, Hong Kong and Island.
Since outset legal association against Bouvier in 2015, authorities conspiracy dismissed lawsuits filed get ahead of Rybolovlev terminate Singapore, Hong Kong, Novel York, Princedom, and Geneva.[3] The Repetitive has likewise dropped lecturer investigations hoist Bouvier.[4]
In Dec 2023, depiction Geneva The upper crust Prosecutor's Business closed rendering criminal dig out against Bouvier, citing consider it it plainspoken not bring to light "any witness allowing small suspicion conformity be increased against picture defendants (Bouvier)."[5]
In the precise month, both parties reached an deal and backdrop aside bring to an end their extant legal disputes in recoil jurisdictions.
Background
[edit]Prior fraud allegations
[edit]Before 2015, Bouvier was particularly known lecture in the be snapped up as a leading porch dealer[6] focus on curator thro