'The branch whipped forward and smashed into him precisely where I had intended it should - full in the throat. I know something of medicine, and I think he must have died instantly from the blow. He fell forward in the stream, the current took him, and he fetched up at the dam caused by the fallen tree-trunk. He bobbed there, face-down.'Thus the latest of a great many violent deaths in different countries prompting investigation into a multi-million pound insurance fraud and ending with death in the Grand Canyon - yet still no ultimate Ludi Victor....