Only, as a jury concluded in a 10-2 majority verdict 14 months later, this was an elaborate ruse.

Gradually the aliens lure the pockets of survivors throughout the country to snow-free zones as part of an elaborate ruse.

It's clearly just an elaborate ruse to drum up publicity and rewrite the book value of all his other work.

Pranks and elaborate ruses were major elements of his career.

In the 19th century, elaborate ruses would be concocted to get the gullible to lend things on this day.