DETECTIVE JAMES SCHILTZ

April 4, 2024

...Round on the Links The link, for Valentine’s Day, was types of love Unconditional Surrender Puppy Airing cupboard America First “Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime” Free True Detective...

February 9, 2024

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ReviewScience fiction books

From the multiverse to a steampunk London — the best new sci-fi books

...From late 19th-century Britain to early 20th-century China, and more detective work, via Yangsze Choo’s The Fox Wife (Quercus £20)....

February 19, 2024

FT Magazine

Why encountering a beached whale profoundly changes so many people

...Overseeing this operation is a 52-year-old former detective named Stephen White, known officially as the Receiver of Wreck....

March 2, 2024

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023

Best books of 2023 — Science fiction

...Relentless Melt by Jeremy P Bushnell (Melville House) A pair of unconventional amateur detectives investigate mysterious goings-on in early-20th-century Boston — but what appears to be a straightforward...

November 14, 2023

ReviewCrime books

Crime fiction round-up — a modern riff on famous sleuths

...The first mystery to be confronted on picking up Holmes, Margaret and Poe (Century £20) by James Patterson and Brian Sitts is: why not “Holmes, Marple and Dupin”?...

January 22, 2024

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Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

ReviewFiction

The Enchanters by James Ellroy — glamour, greed and Marilyn Monroe

...The Enchanters by James Ellroy, Hutchinson Heinemann £22/Knopf $30 Knopf, 448 pages...

September 19, 2023

Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner refuses to publish tax records as police probe house sale

...Cheryl Hughes, a detective chief inspector at Greater Manchester police, wrote to the MP on Monday....

March 28, 2024

HTSI

The sweet cacophony of the bar

...“A Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time,” declares detective Nick Charles in the 1934 flick The Thin Man, “a Bronx to two-step time, a dry Martini you always shake to waltz time.”...

February 24, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Why the UK’s biscuit tax leaves a bad taste in the mouth

...In 2010, the Nobel laureate economist Sir James Mirrlees led a comprehensive review of the British tax system, which has with equal comprehensiveness been ignored by governments ever since....

March 29, 2024

Life & Arts

FT Weekend Quiz solutions

...Simon Case Belgian Congo (names of what is now The Democratic Republic of Congo) I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue Agatha Julie Christie (The Go-Between, Far From the Madding Crowd, Doctor Zhivago) True Detective...

May 26, 2023

ReviewScience fiction books

Best new sci-fi books — supernatural Shakespeare and paranormal sleuths

...Relentless Melt is steeped in historical atmosphere, and its contrasting, gender-nonconforming detective duo hold great appeal....

July 3, 2023

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Of top-notch algorithms and zoned-out humans

...owe to the airline industry / Dr James Palmer, retired consultant anaesthetist, Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK...

February 2, 2024

ReviewTheatre

Infinite Life, National Theatre — what happens when you’re stuck in limbo on a sunlounger?

...There’s something surreal to the whole texture of James Macdonald’s staging, co-produced with Atlantic Theater Company — a suspended quality familiar to any period of illness....

December 6, 2023

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The rights and wrongs of copying

...For example, when the second paragraph of this column lifted 13 words verbatim from the King James Bible, was that plagiarism? Obviously not....

November 17, 2023

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

ReviewScience fiction books

The best new sci-fi: action-packed plots and pure ‘nerdstalgia’

...Its plot — private detective investigates missing-person case — is a clothesline on which hangs a patchwork quilt of viewpoint narratives and excerpts of “found” text that as a whole don’t quite align and...

May 1, 2023

FT Magazine

The mystery of the Hampstead mansion and the £1.4bn bitcoin haul

...The jury were not told how exactly Detective Constable Ryan caught wind of Wen’s activities....

March 20, 2024

ReviewTelevision

Five stars for Happy Valley — dark detective drama returns for swansong

...The series also brings back Cawood’s nemesis, Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), a violent psychopath who raped her daughter and drove her to suicide....

December 30, 2022

FT Magazine

Earwigging for Michael Gambon

...In the 1960s, his work on TV series The Borderers led to him being sized up as a candidate to play James Bond. But he thought of himself as a stage actor first....

February 2, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Episode 1 - Murder brokers

...In April 2016, two Irish detectives arrive at a residential address not far from Dublin city centre....

December 5, 2023

Life & Arts

FT Weekend Quiz: Wisconsin, Aristotle and biathlon

...What’s the only film in which Humphrey Bogart played Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe? In 1727, who became the first scientist to be buried in Westminster Abbey? Click here for the answers...

October 28, 2022

ReviewCrime books

Three American masters return — the best new crime thrillers

...And still with mature male American writers: a nod for This Train (No Exit, £9.99) by James Grady....

December 12, 2022

Transcript

Transcript: Episode 2 - Cocaine CEO

...He went to the same school that the writer James Joyce had attended 70 years earlier. When he was a kid, Christy’s family lived in the UK for a bit and he sometimes puts on an English accent....

December 5, 2023

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The never-ending brilliance of board games

...“Settlers of Catan changed everything,” says James Wallis, a game designer and author of a new history of board games, Everybody Wins....

April 21, 2023

Life & Arts

FT Weekend Quiz: C-SPAN, ‘EastEnders’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’

...The Dead of Jericho, with a screenplay by Anthony Minghella, was the first episode of which TV detective series? Which decathlon Olympic gold medallist came out as a trans woman in 2015?...

August 12, 2022

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