Blackmail
About the author.
This novel is written by Arthur Hailey.He is a bestllers novelist. Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey rved in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. Hailey's last novel, Detective(1997), is a mystery told from the perspective of a Miami homicide detective. This detective also happens to be a former Catholic priest who has lost his religion; the work deals with themes of religion and questions the Catholic Church. Hailey told the Walden Book Report that his aim in writing this book was to share his own thoughts about religion without "mak[ing] it a lecture." He says that he lost his own faith while rving in Cyprus during World War II, and that since ex-priests have many occupations he might as well give his protagonist an exciting one.After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956.Following the success of Hotel during 1965, he moved to California; in 1969, he moved to the Bahamas to avoid Canadian and U.S. incom
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e taxes, which were claiming 90% of his income.His best llers include:Hotel,Airport,Wheels,The Final Diagnosis and The Moneychangers.
About the best llers of author
Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial tting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully rearched information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how the affect society and its inhabitants.
Critics often dismisd Hailey's success as the result of a formulaic "potboilera" style, in which he caud an ordinary character to become involved in a crisis, then incread the suspen by switching among multiple related plot lines. However, he was so popular with readers that his books were almost guaranteed to become best-llers.
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He would spend about one year rearching a subject, followed by six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months writing the book. That aggressive rearch—tracki
ng rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian jungle at age 67 for The Evening News(1990), or reading 27 books on the hotel industry for Hotel—gave his novels a realism that appealed to readers, even as some critics complained that he ud it to disgui a lack of literary talent.
Many of his books reached 1 on the New York Times bestller list and more than 170 million copies have been sold worldwide in 40 languages. Many have been made into movies and Hotel was made into a long-running television ries.Airport became
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a successful film with dramatic visual effects.
About the background.
The story happened in a hotel named St. Gregory in New Orleans, Louisiana which is in the south of US.The text is only a part of the nove,Hotel.We can e three main characters in this text.O gilvie: chief hou officer.the Duke of Croydon: newly appointed British ambassador to the United States.the Duchess of Croydon: wife of the Duke.
This kind of novels are called thrillers. Generally defining, a thriller is a work of fiction or drama designed to hold the interest by the u of a high degree of intrigue, adventure or suspen. Others can be called cop-criminal novels, detective novels. The main purpo is for entertainment, amument. Very often this kind of novels contain a lot of action, usu. suspension, not very much deep thought, without moral intention, not considered classic.
The basic technique is to make the whole story of crime into sth. like a jigsaw puzzle. You can not e the outcome until the final part is put in.
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About the plot.
湖北师范大学是一本吗Gregory was now at the brink of bankruptcy, but Peter McDermott is trying every means he could to save it.Several events happened during the week with the prent text as part of it.The Duke of
Croydon was an internationally famous statesman and the newly appointed British ambas
sador to Washington. They occupied the best suite of the hotel. Monday evening, the Duke went to the gambling hou. Later, his wife pursued and found him. On their way back, the car Jaguar knocked down a woman and her child. Both killed.Ogilvie found the crime and blackmailed the Duke and the Duchess.He managed to make the Duke and the Duchess believe that he would bring the crime to light if his demand was not satisfied.The Duchess came up with a good idea in order to avoid punishment.She would like Ogilvie drive the car away from the city.In the end,the couple paid Ogilvie money and the dirty deal was done.And then,At one o'clock Thursday morning, Ogilvie drove the car north. But he was en leaving the hotel by McDermott. Later in the afternoon, McDermott witnesd the funeral of the two victims of the accident. He suddenly realized the relation between the two events and contacted police.
周期函数怎么判断Ogilvie was caught in Tenne and nt back to New Orleans. The Duke decided to go to the police to confess his crime (to surrender himlf / to give himlf up). But he was hurled out the elevator due to the breakdown of it. He hit the cement ground and died instantly.
Anyway, the novel had a pleasant ending.
One of the guests, who looked old and sick, turned out to be a millionaire. Earlier he was riously ill and was saved by McDermott and his girl friend. To show his gratitude and to repay the hotel staffs' kindness, he bought the hotel and appointed McDermott executive vice president of the hotel.
刘雨星About the structure.
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The novel is writed by the order of time.We can e the prelude,the process of unveiling the crime and the dirty deal. I think this novel can be devided into four parts. Parts 1,from the chief hou officer to “In what way conceivable way”.Three main characters stepped into the stage and we can feel the tension of the atmosphere.Ogilvie acted in a vugal and uncouth way and showed contempt to the Duke and the Duchess. And the Duchess, although nervours,are still brash and thrusting.The part one provided characters and suspen for us.Why did Ogilvie act so rudely to the the Duke and the Duchess?Part 2, from As if the question from to p96 The Duke licked his lips.In this part, Ogilvie expod t
he truth of car accident and the Duke admitted the crumbled was him .And the brash expression of Duke and the Duchess was faded away.They were feared and weak .Ogilvie became more proud and ruder.Part 3,from You might have something there to I reckon that’s so.In this part ,Ogilvie disclod more hiden
