What makes this case weird is that CCBN.com's cofounder Jeffrey Parker had a long and amiable relationship with Thomson (nyse: TOC - news - people ).

FORBES: A tiny rival accuses Thomson Corp. of espionage.

What makes this case weird is that CCBN.com's cofounder, Jeffrey Parker, had a long and amiable relationship with Thomson.

FORBES: A tiny rival accuses Thomson Corp. of espionage.

In the novella, the narrator, a scholar of the long-dead poet Jeffrey Aspern, insinuates himself into the household of Juliana Bordereau, the poet's aged former lover, to try and secure the valuable papers that may be in her possession.

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