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The Book of Swindles (Du pian xin shu, 1617) - story collection by Zhang Yingyu; China's first collection of stories about fraud, featuring twenty-four categories of swindle, circa late Ming dynasty The Government Inspector (1836) – play by Nikolai Gogol ; the main character deceives the corrupt officials of a small town into believing that ...
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The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.. Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench," often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to ...
Mr Lenoir hates dogs, so George's dog Timmy is hidden in a secret passage. One night, the boys spot a light flashing in the house's tower. They suspect the signaller may be Block, the house's sinister, apparently deaf manservant, but he appears to be sleeping in his bedroom at the time.
They are cared for by Aunt Fanny's temporary cook, Mrs. Stick, who is accompanied by her husband and their nasty, tiresome son Edgar. The Sticks and the four children come to hate each other. Mrs Stick repeatedly tries to poison George's dog Timmy, prompting George to hatch a secret plan to run away to Kirrin Island.
A character of identical appearance and voice is seen returning home after a trip with his family after B&B ring the doorbell twice and run away, then no one answers (Ding Dong Ditch). He also appears as a customer at Burger World who is left waiting at the counter while Butt-Head tries to injure Beavis to get worker's compensation money ( Work ...
The plot centers on two laundry workers named Rocky and Leo in a small Pennsylvania town in 1969. After finishing up a shift at work, the men drive around, getting drunk and searching for an auto-inspection station. The inspection certification on Rocky's car runs out at midnight and he needs to find somewhere that will renew it.
Working together, Scott and Chatham formed a criminal partnership that stole many millions of pounds' worth of art and jewellery by targeting furriers and jewellery boutiques on Bond Street, and art collectors in Mayfair. From his initial term in the late 1950s, Scott spent increasing periods of time in prison: three years in 1961, five in 1964 ...