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Daring Danish rescue attempt ends with death (Rousse)

I’d only met C in real life once before. Since our brief encounter earlier in the year all our recent contact had been online, where C’s alias was A. He’d agreed to pass on some photography hints to TPR so … Continue reading

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Daring Dane defeated by dastardly handbag thief (Rousse)

A handbag thief was on the loose. His method was to slit the base of his victims’ bags from behind then deftly extract the valuables from beneath. He performed this trick on me as I walked down the street. I … Continue reading

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Bonding with Radcliffe and Maconie over the Farmer’s Boys and the BBC (Rousse)

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie enjoyed the Fringe so much that they decided to stay on in Edinburgh, at least until Christmas. By now I was their best friend and had persuaded them to help run my seminars. The students … Continue reading

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Scottish devolution discussions voted more interesting than conference magic (Rousse)

The last workshop in the series was a complete disaster. Not even MS could save the day with his presentation of magic tricks learnt from TPR. As I watched a balloon float over the heads of the delegates according to … Continue reading

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