Sentences with phrase «rather elaborate hoax»
It is warned that the specifications could be part of a «rather elaborate hoax,» due to its anonymous source.
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The New Yorker's «Book Bench» blog points out that Assassin of Secrets lifts so many passages from other sources that the book is more of a «pastiche or collage, rather than a «novel,» as we properly understand the word» and that Q.R. Markham (the pseudonym for Quentin Rowan), who is a poet and part owner of a bookstore in Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn, may have consciously perpetrated an elaborate hoax.