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Article: Aiding and Abetting. (Fiction).(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Muriel Spark. Aiding and Abetting London/New York, Viking/Doubleday 2000/2001. viii + 166 pages. 12.99 [pounds sterling]/$21 ISBN 0-67089-428-1 / 0-385-50153-6
THE NOVEL Aiding and Abetting, "based on fact but fictionalized," brings together two stories, Muriel Spark explains in a foreword to the reader. The first is a sensational crime committed in 1974 by the seventh earl of Lucan, who bludgeoned to death his children's nanny, mistaking her for his wife, his intended victim. Immediately after the crime, Lord Lucan disappeared with the aid of his many upper-class friends, and despite numerous sightings over the next twenty-five years, he was never apprehended. ...