Violet was kidnapped by one at the beginning of the second book, in a cunning plot which is revealed later on in the story.

Without revealing the cunning plot, the author echoes an interesting theory about the purpose of the artwork.

The seeming spontaneity of a diary disguises some cunning plot twists.

Money and the trappings of wealth figure frequently in these cunning plots.

Was Bette a restaurant, or a cunning plot by business-hungry chiropractors?

Who was behind the cunning plots?

Oh, that silent friend of mine, is that maturity, to be a mass of cunning plots inside?

For John Lexman was a maker of cunning plots.

You know how much he delights in his cunning little plots.

In 1876 Twain had a cunning plot up his sleeve.