Archive for January, 2011
Una morte solitaria Di Charles Todd Morrow, 24,99 $ 352 pagine Bedeviled UOVA Con Laura Childs Berkley Crime Mistero, 12,95 $ 335 pagine Tre omicidi in un piccolo villaggio del Sussex in Inghilterra sono legati dal fatto che le vittime erano tutti ex combattenti della prima guerra mondiale, tutti erano garroted e nella bocca di tutti è stato un disco di identificazione di piccole dimensioni. .. more …
Crime fiction It’s a good month for historical crime fiction, from ancient Rome to Laos in the ’70s with stops in between.Marcus Didius Falco, a private eye in first-century Rome, stars in Lindsey Davis’ “Nemesis” (Minotaur,352pp.,$24.99). Interrupting Falco’s personal sorrows – the deaths of his scalawag father and newborn son – is the case of a murdered art dealer and his vanished wife.Some .. more …
: I’m not even going to attempt to summarize the sprawling narrative of ‘s mammoth 4 1/2 hour adaptation of Camilo Castelo Branco’s eponymous novel. Suffice it to say, the story is about stories and characters telling stories about stories. So instead, I’d like to talk about the evolution of the film’s central protagonist, Pedro Da Silva (first played by a young Joao Arrais, then Jose Afonso .. more …