Hints and tips:
...The profusion of clues and the depth of the mystery make us suddenly self-conscious, aware of being participants and onlookers, witnesses and detectives, equally compelled to stare and turn away....
...The visitors, a man and a woman, wore the thousand-yard stare that is the unofficial uniform of New York City police detectives. One of them flashed a badge, and the doorman let them inside....
...Addresses don’t simply document where you live; they are crucial badges of identity....
...Harrison likes to mix her allusions, to the point where they may require a detective’s badge to disentangle. Consider “The Help”, a photograph of a grimy door offered without comment or explanation....
...He also read Badge, which gave non-fiction accounts of LA’s grisliest murders....
...His new detective novel, “Night Market”, is out with No Exit Press on January 26. @DPemb...
...The 1978 Prix Goncourt-winning Missing Person, about an amnesiac detective investigating his own past, is just such a novel....
...For instance, no divergence may be permitted of more than 3 per cent from any sector or industrial weighting against a given benchmark or index....
...“There is no one waiting in the wings with Grandpa Hasan’s weight – such a heavyweight figure just doesn’t exist,” said Mr Kanev....
...I have a small police museum in my house, with old badges and hats from all over the world....
...Every time we were told ‘No’, Will and I would have just gone and crawled in a corner somewhere but Christina would say, ‘No, we’re going to get it done’.”...
...As in the Danish offering, hard-boiled male detectives of limited intelligence are led by a woman inspector....
...More importantly, the diesel model has almost half the fuel consumption and, at £39,904, comes in at almost half the £75,137 price of the admittedly awesome Cayenne Turbo....
...Lawyers have no choice but to use legal language, and that always reads so badly.”...
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