This write-up is not new. It was first published on January 18, 2021. Considering his recent court case, I find it relevant to republish it today.
Those familiar with novels, especially before the advent of the internet, can remember a famous novel recalled in my headline. The book, The Way The Cookie Crumbles , first published in 1965, is one of the ninety or so thrillers written by Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond, better known as James Hadley Chase. Ordinarily, a cookie represents many things, ranging from the inanimate to the animate, but The Way The Cookie Crumbles in Chase’s novel means “how things worked or panned out.
” It is a plot in the author’s imaginary millionaire’s playground called Paradise City. A sinister criminal called Ticky Edris was planning the “perfect heist.” It had taken him years to plan a bank robbery in broad daylight with only two accomplices: a smooth conman and a streetsmart, beautiful blonde.
As Ticky’s plan gets put into action, luck is on his side, but as people start dying and disappearing, Detective Tom Lepski picks up the trail. Suddenly, Ticky’s plan is in danger, and if there is one thing he didn’t count on, it is the personalities of the very people who are most vital to his plan. At the end of it, his planning came to nought, and the cookie crumbled.
The moral of the story is that good triumphs over evil in the end. No matter how far the hurricane of falsehood carries the people, the rain of truth will ultimately halt th.
