Crime Of The Week (3)
What is more annoying; finding that the last page of a book is missing or someone giving away the ending of a story when you are half way through?
It takes a special sort of person to spend time in Antarctica. After a hard day’s working on scientific projects, there is very little to do other than read a good book.
Russian scientists, Sergey Savitsky and Oleg Beloguzov, have spent four years on the Bellinghausen station on Antarctica’s King George island. On 9th October, I read this week, Savitsky snapped and, allegedly, attacked his colleague with a kitchen knife, stabbing him in the chest in what is thought to be the first recorded incident of attempted murder on the icy continent.
Savitsky has been extradited to Russia whilst Beloguzov is recuperating in Chile.
The cause of the crime?
Investigators report that Beloguzov “kept telling his colleague the endings of books before he read them.”
Being a book reviewer can be a dangerous pastime, it would seem.
