Equal to Mystery: In Search of Harold Sonny LadooWhen the Trinidadian novelist, Harold Sonny Ladoo was found dead soon after the publication of his classic novel, No Pain Like This Body, for Christopher Laird, it became an obsession to try to discover the writer behind the work and what had brought about his untimely end. Equal to Mystery words written by Ladoo is the record of that pursuit. When, as the editor of a Trinidadian literary journal in the radical years of the early 1970s, Christopher

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in the media and as a literary editor

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He leaves the house certain she will make him a cake

based on a true story and set in Weimar Germany

born with a caul over his face

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plagiarism and the poetic line are just three of the subjects under the spotlight in this book of essays by much-loved literary blogger Katy Evans-Bush