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If you thought Raymond Chandler was hard-boiled, you're in for quite a shock from the gritty reality of Matthew Stokoe's gripping new book, High Life. Ian Koss needed a shower after writing this review.
HIGH LIFE BY MATTHEW STOKOE Akashic It's hard to talk of a story about murder and mystery among Los Angeles lowlife (and high life) without bringing in the name of Raymond Chandler, so let's get that bit over with. Frankly, while Chandler's stories of hard-boiled California crime and justice served ...
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Superman blows his brains out and a sleazy detective tries to cash in on the publicity. At least that's what Carl F Gauze thought he saw during this muddled film.
... / Focus Feature There's an old saying, "It's better to have a good script and bad actors than a bad script and good actors." Too bad this nuevo hard-boiled detective potboiler falls into the second category - there's good acting and direction, but this excellent crew struggles against a confusing and ...
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Carl F. Gauze doesn't need CSI, he's got Heather Dune Macadam's The Weeping Buddha, a tightly written muder mystery revolving around modern forensic science and traditional police leg work.
... mental powers and crime fighting skills of a pair of tireless detectives to resolve this mystery and exonerate the innocent, dead or alive. Homicide detective Lockwood Brennan and his secret lover Devon Halsey of the Suffolk County Crime Scene unit hear the bad news -- their mutual friends Gabe Montebello ...
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Ken Stott returns as the hard-drinking, hard-smoking, DI John Rebus for a second set of mysteries, based on the books by Ian Rankin. This series sees Rebus dealing with complex ciphers, underworld bosses, duplicitous businessmen, and dead cats, along with the requisite murders in each episode. Joe Frietze gives his best good cop/bad cop.
... : SET 2 DIRECTED BY ROGER GARTLAND & MATTHEW EVANS starring Ken Stott, Claire Price, Jennifer Black Acorn Media My introduction to Ian Rankin’s hard boiled Scottish detective came not from the original books, but rather from the previous television series starring John Hannah (you know, “Hey It's ...
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Carl F Gauze tallies 19 deaths in 2006 that somehow affect all of us, even though we may have missed their obituary.
... their husbands to concerts to see his work, and applaud politely. Mickey Spillane 12. Mickey Spillane wrote the Mike Hammer novels, bringing the hard-boiled detective novel into the late 20th century with a dose of excessive sex and violence. He appeared as a character in the film adaptation of one ...
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