http://newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?030324crat_atlarge
“A month earlier, in Mexico, Leon Trotsky had had his head split open with an ice axe.”
Was Trotsky killed by a mountaineer’s ice axe or a bartender’s ice pick? I have wondered about this for years. What would an assassin be doing with a (mountaineer’s) ice axe in Mexico City? (Is there some special significance to death-by-ice-axe?) Does a (bartender’s) ice pick split a head open? This is driving me crazy!