05 September 2024
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Under the Microscope: Read James McCreet's suggested rewrite
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'Pieces of the puzzle usually come together in the end.' So said my father. It’s surprising how many times he’s been proved right over the years. On this occasion, it all started with me leaving a hardback book in our holiday hotel room.
I noticed only when unpacking. Nobody was particularly surprised. I have a track record, you see. The Hobbit in Ibiza. The Da Vinci Code in Sydney. Brighton Rock in, well, Brighton. There are more. But this time it was different.
You probably don’t know the title: THE MYTH OF HELTER SKELTER by Susan Atkins-Whitehouse. I mention it because I’d expended some considerable time hunting all over the internet for it, finally locating the one available copy in the US. For that reason, I wanted it back.
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