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May 20, 2023, 8:28 PM
James Comey is trying to masterthe twist ending.This time, on purpose.
The former director of the FBI hopes his debut mystery novel, ‘Central Park West,’ will be the first of many
By Sophia Nguyen
May 20, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
James Comey at the Mysterious Bookshop in New York. His debut mystery novel, “Central Park West,” is being published May 30. (Mary Inhea Kang for The Washington Post)
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Readers of detective stories, wrote W.H. Auden — the poet was addicted to them — suffer from a sense of sin. They are people intimate with guilt, and they dream of its removal. The last time James Comey read something in the genre, he says, was 1987: “Scott Turow. ‘Presumed Innocent.’ I was all on fire reading that.” The dry spell started that year, when he began working as a federal prosecutor. After that, he couldn’t read anything about crime, or espionage, or terrorism.
Yet there he was last month at mystery writing’s highest honors, sawing away at a steak dinner in a ballroom at the Times Square Marriott. The Edgar Awards ceremony was in full swing: purple uplighting, gift tote bags printed with Edgar Allan Poe’s face dangling from the back of every chair.
At some point during the night, Comey lost his name tag. He went through the motions of looking for it — the folds of his napkin? under his seat? — before a tablemate touched his elbow and laughed: “You don’t need it.” The staffers at the registration table out front had said the same: “Well, it’s James Comey — ya can’t miss him!” The most famous FBI director this side of J. Edgar Hoover is easy to spot in a crowd, and not just because he’s 6-foot-8.
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What does "Twist" means in Oliver Twist's name?
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When Oliver Twist is born at the workhouse, it is time for the O's in the naming of newborns, so "Oliver" is chosen by Mr. Bumble, the beadle, who is responsible for the naming of the children in the poorhouse. But "Twist" is something that Bumble says he just "made up" as it was time for a last name that began with "T."
Nevertheless, there may have been some perverse cruelty in Bumblebecause the word "twist" is a slang term for "hanging."Certainly Oliver's last name can suggest different things connected to hanging: a body twisting and writing as the person hangs, the strands of rope that are twisted in a noose, and the rope noose itself that is twisted around the neck of the criminal.