"Ludlumesque" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1986, “review of Robert Ludlum The Bourne Supremacy”, in Publishers Weekly",
          "text": "Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this.",
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          "ref": "1987, Stephen King, Misery, Viking, page ??",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2003, Jincy Willett, Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, Thomas Dunne Books, page 112",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2006, Stephen Brown, “Rattles from the Swill Bucket”, in Stephen Brown, editor, Consuming Books: The Marketing and Consumption of Literature, Routledge, page 13",
          "text": "Its singularly serendipitous nature lends itself to romantic novelisation (book cross-dressing, as it were) or Ludlumesque thrillers (book double-crossing, so to speak).",
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          "ref": "2008, Howard Fineman, The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country, Random House, page 38",
          "text": "It had not taken long for the press to bestow upon the event legendary status and a Ludlumesque name: “the 'macaca' incident.”",
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          "ref": "2009, John Sutherland, Curiosities of Literature, Skyhorse Publishing, page 184",
          "text": "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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