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...Or perhaps it was felt that Poe’s sleuth Auguste Dupin — the progenitor of all the detectives that followed him — is known only to cognoscenti these days....
...That wasn’t good enough for Fortnum & Mason. It asked TM Eye to prosecute....
...Such issues as the vulnerability of children and current diversity drives are grist to Mason’s mill in this beguiling offspring of Colin Dexter’s Morse series....
...A private detective will be in a busy shopping area, not in a specific store, just walking around, going to different shops....
...Letter in response to this article: Wilson’s achievements as PM were considerable / From John Mason, Buxton, Derbyshire, UK...
...In A Killing in November by Simon Mason (riverrun, £14.99), argumentative working-class detective Ryan Wilkins and Balliol-educated London Nigerian Ray Wilkins enter an unwanted collaboration when a woman...
...It’s not the Perry Mason we’re used to, that’s for sure....
...The setting is Los Angeles, the time — 1938 — only a few years on from the rebooted Perry Mason. You could overlay one series on the other and barely see the joins....
...Another writer with a newly truncated name is MJ Cross (formerly Mason Cross), whose What She Saw Last Night (Orion, RRP£8.99) sports a striking premise, albeit one that has seen considerable service before...
...The mixed-race hero of Simon Mason’s third Garvie Smith mystery is profoundly annoying....
...We never saw any masked men pull up, and we never saw anyone resembling Cary Grant or James Mason. We never really saw anyone; the street was deserted in the evenings....
...Harrison’s “Dinner” consists of a 1991 carry-out meal she encased in plastic bags, and when those started to smell, transferred to mason jars....
...I like to stock up on sweets at Fortnum & Mason....
...On the day I visited the Renwick Gallery, a cluster of self-appointed detectives were conferring around a roofless three-room dollhouse, debating the fine points of blood splatter....
...Detective chief inspector Andy Fyfe said recipients should be wary of “tell-tale signs”, including spelling and grammar errors in emails....
...Being a fund manager is a bit like being a detective — you have to examine the evidence and question your views,” he says....
...His father, the owner of a small shop, was a Mason, and his mother a Catholic. Both inculcated Padura with important ethical principles, but “I grew up far from the world of books”, he says....
...Perry Mason made a career of being a lawyer who liked to dabble in detective work. But then he was fictional. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...He has direct experience of such places: while directing radio drama Occupied for the BBC, his cast mingled with protesters at a sit-in at London department store Fortnum & Mason....
...On his return to New York he worked alternately as an exterminator with a fumigating company and as a private detective. He and Klapper formally divorced in 1946....
...An example of this occurs in The Wire: when the (white) detective McNulty, whose closest friend is (black) fellow detective Bunk, passes racist comments with a fellow (white) officer, you feel something...
...He comes with the Czech ambassador to the UK, two aides and two British Special Branch detectives in his wake....
...It comes from the pen of a veteran comedy script writer and is presented as wisecracking monologue - pitched somewhere between cosy Maureen Lipman and hard-nosed Jackie Mason....
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