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...John Sugar is a detective in the right place at the wrong time....
...Macdonald says he “started to think about this film as a kind of psychological detective story....
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: West Lothian question for Marilyn Monroe’s lawyer / From Ian Peter MacDonald, Spean Bridge, Inverness-shire, UK...
...It’s the afternoon of December 8 1980, and John Lennon is talking excitedly about the future in an interview for RKO radio....
...Writers who did do it, like the two cousins who co-wrote detective stories under the name Ellery Queen, often pretended there was a single author....
...An independent review chaired by John Sentamu, then bishop of Birmingham, found the redeployment of detectives after murder charges were brought and disclosure rules had affected the preparation and prosecution...
...“I believe it was that night that Elton [John] told him, after hearing that song, that he had to make a record.”...
...Playing detective, you could spend all day at this terrific show....
...In a tense and atmospheric opening, two detectives from Cahokia Police Department make a grisly discovery on the roof of a public building....
...Detectives used to complain of women slipping into stores to pick up status-enhancing goods, but necessities are now out of reach for some families....
...My colleague John Burn-Murdoch recently presented striking evidence of a new trend: young men and young women are becoming politically segregated....
...(The aliens are playing woodwind, while the Star Wars composer John Williams was influenced by 1940s swing when he penned their tune.)...
...When Errol Morris was a private detective, he didn’t always introduce himself as such....
...If so, that’s a danger for John Grisham, who has been capo of the legal thriller for decades....
...And was Naomi’s killer really her shell-shocked brother or was it her husband, John, who was in the house at the time?...
...Snow positively hummed with generic tropes: a hardbitten but decent detective, St John Strafford; an atmospheric country pile; a priest murdered in the library....
...The slick ad from China’s feared spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, opens with the shadow of an agent walking through a dark tunnel, a scene reminiscent of the cover of a John le Carré novel....
...If the crowdfunding effort is anything to go by, there is huge sympathy for the data detectives Leif Nelson, Joe Simmons and Uri Simonsohn....
...With no plans from original backers the BBC to grow another season, Idris Elba’s grizzled, determined detective has been repotted in a standalone film....
...Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell narrowly survived the murder attempt. The following month, the region’s terror threat was increased to the second-highest level, “severe”....
...One of my biggest references was Gena Rowlands in [John Cassavetes’ 1980 thriller] Gloria, more than The Godfather or Scarface.”...
...Local detective Catherine Wheel gets the case — and soon discovers that the dead man had four passports, a stash of cash and ammunition in his hotel room....
...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...
...Relentless Melt is steeped in historical atmosphere, and its contrasting, gender-nonconforming detective duo hold great appeal....
...Take a break from the news Errol Morris was once described as “the best private detective in America”, the filmmaker tells the FT about making a film about legendary spy turned novelist John le Carré and...
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