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...What drives the detective is his abiding curiosity about the workings of human affairs....
...In fact, there is little doubt that McDermid has achieved that exalted position for her series of books featuring mismatched duo criminal profiler Tony Hill and Detective Carol Jordan. Further proof?...
...duo’s cases have resonances of the golden age of detective fiction....
...Auster writes movingly of his parents’ Polish-Jewish ancestry and his own sense of alienation from mainstream Protestant culture in America: “There were no cowboys called Bernstein or Schwartz, no private...
...FILM The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael, edited by Sanford Schwartz, Library of America, RRP£25, 828 pages Prepare to be dazzled....
...Its protagonist, inspector Sartaj Singh, has earned a place among the world’s outstanding fictional detectives. One of the most exhilarating reads of 2006....
...Restaurant correspondents rarely get the opportunity to be private detectives but for the past nine months I have been trying to track down Frederic Bourse, once described to me by a leading London chef...
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