Prosecutors contended that the notes pointed to an elaborate scheme to murder Mrs. Silverman and steal her $7.7 million Upper East Side townhouse.
A week later, $49,960 was wired from a foreign bank account linked to Iran's Quds Force to a man posing as a Mexican drug hit man, the down payment on an alleged Iranian scheme to murder the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
In the second play of the trilogy, the couple's two surviving children, Orestes and Electra, are reunited as adults after a long separation and then scheme to murder their mother and her lover.
He falls for a semi-classy dame (Barbara Stanwyck as a blonde), a client's neglected wife, and they scheme to murder her husband for the accident insurance money.
The Turks might be forgiven for offering the reminder that Austria was, in living memory, a major collaborator in the Nazi scheme to murder and enslave millions of Europeans.
Page A4 ONE ACT IN A LONG STRUGGLE If the Obama administration is right that the outlandish contract scheme to murder the Saudi ambassador was the work of Iranian officials, it is only the latest episode in a covert struggle that has played out for years between Iran, the United States and an American ally, Israel.
Ian McEwan's latest novel is narrated by a disconcertingly precocious unborn child who has caught on to his mother and uncle's diabolical scheme to murder his father.
But if the Obama administration is right that the outlandish contract scheme to murder the ambassador was the work of Iranian officials, it is only the latest episode in a covert struggle that has played out for years involving Iran, the United States and an American ally, Israel.
Woody Allen's "Cassandra's Dream" (Nov. 30) stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as brothers who turn to murder in a scheme to avoid financial ruin.
As Goneril, Arwen Anderson acted as a malevolent ice queen, intent on scheming to murder her husband, the Duke of Albany (Sam Misner) with the help of the bastard Edmund Dan Cleggg), and manipulating her servant, Oswald Patrick Alparonee), to stir up trouble.
