Stranger than fiction - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T06:48:33Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:10707?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A10859&feed=yes&xn_auth=noNow that was a bizarre one wa…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-03-23:537324:Comment:109032007-03-23T11:58:43.994ZSunnie Gillhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/sunniefromoz
Now that was a bizarre one wasn't it. I found myself wondering whether Litvinenko was prepared to sacrifice his own life in order to implicate Putin. <br />
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I remember that poisoned umbrella thing. If a writer had come up with that you wonder whether reviews would have panned it as not credible.<br />
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Mind you, the CIA came up with some rather bizarre ways of trying to get rid of Castro in the 60's as well didn't they. Wasn't the idea of poisoned cigars tossed about?
Now that was a bizarre one wasn't it. I found myself wondering whether Litvinenko was prepared to sacrifice his own life in order to implicate Putin. <br />
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I remember that poisoned umbrella thing. If a writer had come up with that you wonder whether reviews would have panned it as not credible.<br />
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Mind you, the CIA came up with some rather bizarre ways of trying to get rid of Castro in the 60's as well didn't they. Wasn't the idea of poisoned cigars tossed about? You're right, Bob Woolmer's d…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-03-23:537324:Comment:108592007-03-23T08:40:44.142ZVincent Holland-Keenhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/fiskerton
You're right, Bob Woolmer's death does sound like the stuff of a novel, which I guess makes it strange as fiction, rather than stranger. A story I would put as stranger than fiction is the Alexander Litvinenko affair. The murder of a dissident, the police investigation, the political intrigue, that would all be fair game, but could a fiction writer really get away with killers who try to effect murder through use of a relatively slow acting radioactive poison (compared to a poison-tipped…
You're right, Bob Woolmer's death does sound like the stuff of a novel, which I guess makes it strange as fiction, rather than stranger. A story I would put as stranger than fiction is the Alexander Litvinenko affair. The murder of a dissident, the police investigation, the political intrigue, that would all be fair game, but could a fiction writer really get away with killers who try to effect murder through use of a relatively slow acting radioactive poison (compared to a poison-tipped umbrella, for example) that leaves traces across half of London and on a handful of passenger aircraft?