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cpmcmahon | 19:12 Wed 10th Jan 2001 | Arts & Literature
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"This was in the days before every daily newspaper in London was competing madly against its rivals in the matter of insurance and offering princely bribes to the citizens to make a fortune by breaking their necks. Nowadays papers are paying are paying as high as two thousand pounds for a genuine corpse and five pounds a week for a dislocated spine; but at that time the idea was new..." Which comic author described an insurance scam performed by a syndicate of friends, and what was the name of the story? (Financial Times Christmas Quiz, 23/24 December 2000)
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It was P G Wodehouse, and the story was Ukridge's Accident Syndicate.

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