Meaning of Ludlumesque | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Plotted in the style of Robert Ludlum's novels, noted especially for their intricate and extensive use of thriller tropes.
2. Titled in the style of Robert Ludlum's novels, typically consisting of "The", followed by a proper noun used attributively, then an understated common noun.

Examples

“Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this.”

“It had been damp; Scotch tape did not like the damp; in many cases her Ludlumesque little traps had undoubtedly just peeled off and floated away on some random draft.”

“There's even a best-selling paperback novelist living in Frome, Dante Minuto, whom none of us has ever seen, who writes Ludlumesque thrillers with Ludlumesque titles, like The Marchpane Cicatrix and The Wiesenheimer Punctilio.”

“Its singularly serendipitous nature lends itself to romantic novelisation (book cross-dressing, as it were) or Ludlumesque thrillers (book double-crossing, so to speak).”

“It had not taken long for the press to bestow upon the event legendary status and a Ludlumesque name: “the 'macaca' incident.””

“Most publicized is the Italian firm, Bulgari jewellery, who commissioned Fay Weldon, in 2001, to write what became The Bulgari Connection (in the circumstances, a wonderfully wry, Ludlumesque, title).”

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