But the next day, Andrew is told she is being held hostage. Inger has now seen enough to realize Andrew was right and has been acting admirably, and begins falling in love as she joins in his investigation. He has no key, but Denise Marceau lets him into her room-where she makes sure Claude sees him, producing the desired effect on Claude. They again assume he is drunk and return him to his hotel wearing only a towel.
He gets away by disturbing the meeting until the police are called. On foot, he is attacked again by Daranyi and flees to a nudist lecture where he must remove his clothes. But Lindblom's widow says he was a makeup artist: exactly what an impostor would have needed.Įmily and Andrew follow a lead to a hospital where Max is being held, but he is whisked away before they find him. A cursory police investigation, with Inger and Andrew there, finds no evidence of crime they assume he imagined it while drunk. He sees and chases the assassin, whose name is Daranyi, but is thrown into a canal. He goes to Lindblom's apartment and finds the man dying. Asked for an example of developing a detective story, he suggests the possibility that Max may be an impostor.Īndrew is telephoned by an Oscar Lindblom, who offers information about Max. He has been drinking heavily and supporting himself by writing pulp detective stories, and is accepting the prize only because of the money. Depressed and angry at himself, he tells the press the truth: far from still being a great literary talent, he has not even been able to start writing the much-anticipated novel he has been "working on" for years. But there is no time to talk: Andrew has an interview scheduled. The next day, Andrew is surprised when "Max" does not remember meeting him, and his manner also seems different. Emily is told that the man is Walter, the father she thought was dead, and that he will be killed if she does not play along. When Max refuses, he is kidnapped by communist agents, while an impostor takes his place. and the prize, and defect to East Germany. Eckhart asks him to publicly repudiate the U.S. That night, Max accepts an invitation to meet an old friend, Hans Eckhart, in a park. Claude Marceau's mistress, Monique Souvir, is traveling with them and Denise feels neglected as a woman later she asks Andrew to help by pretending to have an affair. The chemistry winners are a married couple, Drs. Denise and Claude Marceau. Garrett thinks Farelli must have stolen his work rather than reaching the same result through improvisation as he claimed, and thus does not deserve half the prize. The Nobel laureates for medicine are Dr. John Garrett and Dr. Carlo Farelli. At the hotel where all the winners are guests, Andrew is introduced to the physics laureate, Dr. Max Stratman, an elderly German-born American, who is accompanied by his niece Emily. Arriving in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he is delighted that the beautiful Swedish Inger Lisa Andersson has been assigned as his personal chaperone. The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Andrew Craig, who is disrespectful of it, and seems more interested in women and drinking.
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