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After eight years, we present the final appearance of SmallBluePlanet Asset Management, as the chairman reveals his would-be assassin...

So it wasn't the paramilitary wing of the Financial Services Authority behind the shooting of the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet, after all. Nor was it the Treasury, the present Chancellor, his immediate predecessor, an unhappy employee, a disgruntled investor, one of the seven lovely Brookes sisters, Mrs Chairman or even Richard Branson. Nor, as it happens, was it me - but then, I always knew that. "OK, I give up," I said to the current occupier of Room 101 of the plush Weaselly Plot Twist private wing of St Jules the Predictable's Hospital, as I...

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