This one has no hesitation in marking down Wilson as the villain of the piece: a paranoid buck-passer on this evidence, whose thraldom at the hands of the sinister Marcia became so great that his doctor seriously suggested to other members of the prime ministerial entourage that she should be quietly done away with.
Recent years have seen New Labour's "sinister minister" become a vocal cheerleader for Chinese interests in Britain, with some even questioning whether Blair's one-time confidant is being paid to lobby on Beijing's behalf.
"Happy Birthday, Turk!," which involves the murder of a Turkish immigrant and a sinister drug ring, became an immediate best seller.
The poet Edward FitzGerald named his herring-lugger "Marian Halcombe"; cats were named Fosco and thought to look more sinister; and Walter became a fashionable name for babies.
I forgot my debt to her for this until the night after she died, when I was alone in the house and suddenly every sound once more became sinister — the escaped lunatic slowly turning the doorknob, the big brute creeping up the stairs.
"It was peace and love," chips in Iommi, "but then it all went pear-shaped".Sabbath have always been associated with the sinister, but they became not so much proponents as harbingers of doom after Butler had a vision of the devil in his late teens.
Writing verse meant perpetually discovering new and intricate fascinations, though nature often became sinister (a ladybird "slides like a blood-drop down a spear of grass") and left no consolation for losses such as the death of her son by drowning: There was singing in the sap that ended in his green death playing by the river.
When the play darkens, these doors become sinister black gaps leading to unknown, dark interiors.
For "Skip Divided," the stuttering electronic bleeps of the album version became a sinister tribal rhythm, with a slowly crawling melodica theme played by Flea.
(The novel became "Bend Sinister". Wilson responded on reading it, "My only possible criticism would be that you sometimes write slightly involved sentences").
