Time'S BarterAt their best, these haiku full of rain, land clouds, plums and (like the Japanese) cherries, domestic life, city vistas and uncliched vignettes of the abundant nature for which his land is renowned richly exemplify the three defining features which Tony Conran has isolated as the essence of haiku: 'loneliness, tenderness and slenderness'. Then there are the characteristic attributes of brevity, concision, simplicity, presence, sensory directness and

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much to the resentment of his courtiers

football coaches

A second body

and timeless social commentary

skill-building fun

which results in one monstrous MESS

he leaves the town's livelihood in peril

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A locked room whodunit from the Golden Age of detective fiction

yet still suspenseful