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1. In an election, the MacGuffin takes the form of a scandal.
2. Which brings us to what Alfred Hitchcock used to call the MacGuffin – no decent thriller is complete without one.
3. The MacGuffin is the thing everybody‘s looking for, the diary or computer chip whose whereabouts drive the plot.
4. The media will spend most of the novel mucking around in each candidate‘s past, searching for the MacGuffin that will blow the campaign wide open.
5. It is a kind of mystery, in which the mystery is a very rich man, and the MacGuffin is a custom–made necklace from the fashionable London jeweller SJ Phillips.