Friday Flashback: Rec. #220 (abbrev.): Aiding and Abetting

I decided to start doing Friday Flashbacks in case you missed some early posts the first time around. You're busy; I understand.

What: Muriel Spark, fraudulent psychiatrist, missing Lord Lucan, notorious real-life case, fictionalized follow-up, seventh Earl, fugitive, impostors, Paris, con-woman, Bavarian stigmatic, dead nanny, upper-class mores, murderer, satire

Opening lines: "The receptionist looked tinier than ever as she showed the tall, tall Englishman into the studio of Dr. Hildegard Wolf, the psychiatrist who had come from Bavaria, then Prague, Dresden, Avila, Marseilles, then London, and now settled in Paris."

Representative quote: "Beate during that time had been able to live in comfort. Every month she took to her bed and bloodily received pilgrims. Miracles did happen, as in fact they sometimes do."

Connections to previous Wreckage: The Girls of Slender Means (Rec. #305), Loitering with Intent (Rec. #13), Open to the Public (Rec. #107), Personal Wreck Week (List #5)

[Originally posted 1/25/12.]