Crime novelist Lynda La Plante has been accused of lifting passages from Olga Lengyel's 1947 memoir Five Chimneys for her 1993 novel, Entwined. La Plante denies the plagiarism allegation, suggesting instead that a research assistant may be responsible. The two passages, which were spotted by an Australian reader, are nearly identical. Lengyel's 1947 memoir reads, “…three hundred and sixty corpses every half hour, which was all the time it took to reduce human flesh to ashes…” while La Plante's novel contains the line “three hundred and sixty corpses every half hour—all the time it took to reduce human flesh to ashes.” Literary editor Malcolm Knox commented, “Outsourcing any task always has its perils…”