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...Their many friends in high places included Boston-born Joseph Kennedy, US ambassador in London and patriarch of the Kennedy clan....
...I recall that in Georges Simenon’s My Friend Maigret, the detective, when solving a murder, pondered on how to phone the island. Were there telephone wires under the sea?...
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, ‘The Truth Detective’ (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Played by the likes of Chloë Sevigny and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the killers are often desperate — with petty motives and careless execution....
...Writer Joseph Roth told Stefan Zweig, “Do not delude yourself. Hell reigns”. By late February, Nazi decrees had laid the basis for “absolute control”....
...He is well supported by Tony Gardner’s pompous superintendent, Jordan Metcalfe’s bullishly stupid detective and Shane David-Joseph’s hapless constable....
...Such was the profusion of advertising talent that in the late 1940s, future novelists Joseph Heller and Mary Higgins Clark briefly worked for the same New York agency....
...Originally written in Afrikaans but translated — with customary aplomb — by KL Seegers, Meyer’s single-minded detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido are demoted (after an ill-advised sortie in Cape...
...Sam Joseph, a CIA officer, is sent to Paris to recruit Mariam Haddad, a high-level Syrian government official....
...is as welcome as flatulence, and captain Newsome (Paterson Joseph) is not impressed: “Carry on”. “That means get out of his sight!”...
...Haitian detectives plan to interrogate several leading politicians and business figures over possible links to the plot....
...boards like a detective show with little bits of string joining up all the characters because it’s so intertwined....
...The gifted Joseph Knox continues his upwards trajectory with True Crime Story (Doubleday, £14.99), forging something original and innovative....
...The writer’s genre-switch has been triumphant, as Island Reich (Michael Joseph, £14.99) proves....
...written entirely in the first person), are often outsiders trying to navigate worlds that are mysterious or faintly threatening: a Japanese woman exiled to England (A Pale View of The Hills); an English detective...
...The film is a mystery, almost a detective story, a tale of doppelgängers and mistaken identity that may not be mistaken at all — unfolding in the Nazi-occupied Paris of 1942....
...Even cops get a habit, as with the detective played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, supplied by the ascendant Dominique Fishback, cast as a teenage pusher and shyly gifted rapper....
...Obstinate Detective Hulda is pushed to the edge, struggling with problems both personal and professional as she tackles two difficult cases....
...Detectives Mel Ferreira and Dushan Zigic have been cut loose from the Hate Crimes Unit, but the case falls into their remit....
...Unprecedented (BBC iPlayer) Leading actors — Rory Kinnear, Monica Dolan, Paterson Joseph and Gemma Arterton among them — star in these short new plays by top playwrights, commissioned by Headlong theatre...
...The late Philip Kerr made several valiant attempts but could never outrun Bernie Gunther, his wry, cynical German detective....
...Two writers in particular are enjoying something of a revival among British readers: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth....
...The Lady of the Lake (Severn House, RRP£20.99), a diverting mystery in traditional style beginning with the murder of an unpleasant major, and the other for Come a Little Closer by Karen Perry (Michael Joseph...
...Gertler, according to a US Treasury statement when it later imposed sanctions on him, was making a fortune by acting “for or on behalf of” Congo’s president Joseph Kabila in “opaque and corrupt” mining deals...
...The Cabin (£13.99, Michael Joseph, translated by Anne Bruce) is the second entry in the Cold Case Quartet, which features the series’ character Chief Inspector William Wisting, and continues Horst’s move...
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