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Sophie Kerr has the misfortune to be left with the chore of explaining those fingerprints, which she does in ten pages of near shaggy-dog tale telling by Glenda that serve more to achieve her word count goal than to facilitate a neat happy ending to the book. In sum, The Woman Accused...
A Tale of Internment is a wafer-thin story of Laurent’s year behind bars and barbed wire for the crime of being foreign. Like Paul Cohen-Portheim, whose Time Stood Still was featured here in 2014 and has since been reissued in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press, Livia L...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is said to be the most often-filmed adaptation of a book. I don't know if that's true but it's quite clear that over the decades, the tale has indeed inspired many adaptations for the cinema...
4105. Chapter 22a- Life in Sparta 4206. Chapter 22b- Life in Athens 4307. Chapter 23- The Golden Apple 4408. Chapter 24a- Greece's War With Persia 4509. Chapter 24b- The Greeks Fight Each Other 4610. Chapter 25a- Philip and His Son ...
Ken knew the problem; he’d dealt with it himself growing up in the 1920s. The King James Version of 1611, used by most Protestant churches at the time, was difficult for modern generations to comprehend—much less Ken’s children growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s. ...
Whether it's a whodunnit crime story, a tale of suspense that keeps you guessing, or a mind-bending psychological thriller, putting the pieces together sitting in front of your screen has long been a highly satisfying activity for amateur sleuths.Often...
Marriage isn’t a fairy tale and he acknowledges that it’s not all heart-and-flowers for women. There are few married women who would not, sooner or later, accept with joy the offer of some months of a maidenly liberty. This reminded me of the concept ofmomcationwhere women go on ho...
(16) Edward Dmytryk, The Caine Mutiny Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M for Murder Robert Wise, Executive Suite Anthony Mann, The Glenn Miller Story Samuel Fuller, Hell and High Water Henry King, King of Khyber Rifles Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, Knock on Wood Don Siegel, Riot in Cell Block 11...
So runs the fairy tale. Isn’t it a pretty one? Like, who said the ostrich is a stupid bird?” By mid-spring, fallout shelter signs had been placed at the entrances and inside designated buildings, and the yellow and black logos became part the campus landscape. Above: While business ...