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Written and directed by Mr. Brattin, its title lifted from a ghost story by Edith Wharton, it delivers a Hollywood-ready Victorian plot in an ingeniously homespun package.

Written and directed by Mr. Brattin, its title lifted from a book of Edith Wharton ghost stories, it delivers a Hollywood-ready Victorian plot in an ingeniously homespun package.

A journalist in a raincoat (Gina McKee) pops up every so often to deliver a plot development via whispered aside or cryptic text message ("WHOSE PLANE?"), then buggers off again.

He said that Milco being revealed to be Miles, was Home and Away delivering a "plot twist equal to the genre's best".

First it delivers a simple paralysing sting.

Her easy-reading novels always deliver a plot-driven narrative, a heroine who can take charge of a situation and some creeping menace that is genuinely scary because it is familiar in a personal way.

But it, too, delivered a clear message.

When Godard wrote with ardent enthusiasm about Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man," he more or less delivered a multi-page plot summary; when he praised Mankiewicz's "The Quiet American," he wished that the direction had been more fiery, but still named it, thanks to the writing, the best film of the year.

It delivered great action and interesting characters with a plot that was grounded enough to make us care a little.

He's still a master of deadpan timing, particularly when he delivers a key plot line.

But a thriller writer, obliged to deliver a tight plot, the requisite number of twists and showdowns and set pieces, along with a sufficiently difficult but satisfyingly resolved mystery?