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..., but with a female detective named Fantômette....
...Overseeing this operation is a 52-year-old former detective named Stephen White, known officially as the Receiver of Wreck....
...Made by Louis Cartier, the grandson of the maison’s founder, the ring became a favourite of the French poet and playwright Jean Cocteau, who wore a pair on his little finger from the late 1930s and popularised...
...Playing detective, you could spend all day at this terrific show....
...Macdonald says he “started to think about this film as a kind of psychological detective story....
...I agree that this French island in the Mediterranean is maybe not luxurious but a rather more simple place....
...Based on a true story, this gritty thriller unfolds a complex saga of heroin smuggling, hard-graft detective work and, above all, cars, which feature as chase vehicles, places of illicit storage and instruments...
...Indeed, this is where Lemaitre — who has also written a series of popular crime novels featuring the diminutive detective Camille Verhoeven — is at his chilling best....
...On Disney+ in the UK and Hulu in the US Poker Face Rian Johnson’s delightful pastiche of 1970s detective shows delivered murder most fun....
...With that now behind me, I’ve enjoyed the chance to finally catch up on The Lock-Up by John Banville, the latest addition to his Strafford and Quirke detective series, in which the repressed and sinister...
...Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow (Baskerville) The dark alleys of 1930s Birmingham are a suitably gloomy arena for William Garrett, a first world war veteran turned private detective in this engaging and...
...The people who want that money are also entirely without moral scruple,” observes Fournier, a French intelligence officer....
...In the US, the story of the French 75 was further complicated by Prohibition....
...My husband is French and I see some of O’Gara’s phrases already entering the lexicon in our bilingual chez nous . . ....
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, “The Truth Detective” (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first Letters in response to this column: Why Britain...
...His amateur detectives live in an English retirement village, and their cool handling of murder(s) and violence has done wonders for intergenerational understanding....
...Michael O’SullivanYou know, in court and travelling to court, he would be trying to learn French, or reading books. He thought he was a step above everybody....
...World-weary detective Harry Hole, now struck off the force and living in Los Angeles, is up against a highly intelligent psychopath cutting a bloody swath through Oslo....
...It was fuelled by the supply of packages from the Red Cross, the contents of which were then traded: the Sikh prisoners didn’t want razor blades or beef, the French were desperate for coffee, the English...
...In Codename Faust (Zaffre, £16.99) by Gustaf Skördeman, Stockholm detective Sara Nowak practises the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga....
...Lemaitre is known internationally for his series of detective novels featuring Commandant Camille Verhoeven....
...In summer the packraft sailed under castle battlements on the Menai Strait, and in October, I snuck it into my hold luggage for a trip to French Polynesia....
...As if in a historical detective novel, these strands turned out to twine in intricate and startling ways, leading towards some of the more outré zones of Victorian sexuality....
...Two of the lead detectives on the case sped off in a car....
...The hero, Lemmy Caution, is a secret agent/detective sent from the Outlands to destroy Alphaville’s technocracy....
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