Murder At The Movies

Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780300256284

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Murder and the Movies by David Thomson Pdf

How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn’t hurt a fly? Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Strangers on a Train, The Conformist, The Godfather, and The Shining, he offers a disconcerting sense of how the form of movies makes us accomplices in this sinister narrative process. By turns seductive and astringent, very serious and suddenly hilarious, Murder and the Movies admits us into what Thomson calls “a warped triangle”: the creator working out a compelling death; the killer doing his and her best; and the entranced reader and spectator trying to cling to life and a proper sense of decency.

Author : A.E. Eddenden
Publisher : ChicagoReviewPress + ORM
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613733172

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Murder at the Movies by A.E. Eddenden Pdf

A policeman tracks a killer inspired by 1939’s hit films in “an entertaining read . . . chock-full of menace, momentum, and multiple Movietone moments” (Booklist). Inspector Albert V. Tretheway is perturbed when his beloved bowler hat disappears in what seems to be a relatively harmless prank. Three weeks later Tretheway and Constable Jake Small investigate a nervous neighbor’s report of an anonymous phone tip that her long-dead husband is in her garage. What they find there instead is a live horse—wearing Tretheway’s missing bowler. As the pranks escalate, Tretheway connects them and surmises they are inspired by the films showing at the local theater in Fort York, Ontario. The guessing game begins. Which of this year’s Hollywood releases is next? When the fourth prank involves a pre-dug grave, the Hindu goddess Kali, and the murder of a popular Bugle-Major, Tretheway spearheads a chase, both cerebral and physical, through more movie murder adventures to a fiery, spectacular finale . . . “[An] amiable sleuth . . . [A] gently satirical series.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : R. Franklin James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Audiobooks
ISBN : OCLC:1317773292

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The Fallen Angels Book Club by R. Franklin James Pdf

Author : Paul Fischer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982114855

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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures by Paul Fischer Pdf

One of the New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A “spellbinding, thriller-like” (Shelf Awareness) history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious, forgotten man behind it—detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. The year is 1888, and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his “taker” or “receiver” device for his family on the front lawn. The device is meant to capture ten to twelve images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate and detached world, occurrences from one end of the globe could now be viewable with only a few days delay on the other side of the world. No human experience—from the most mundane to the most momentous—would need to be lost to history. In 1890, Le Prince was granted patents in four countries ahead of other inventors who were rushing to accomplish the same task. But just weeks before unveiling his invention to the world, he mysteriously disappeared and was never seen or heard from again. Three and half years later, Thomas Edison, Le Prince’s rival, made the device public, claiming to have invented it himself. And the man who had dedicated his life to preserving memories was himself lost to history—until now. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures pulls back the curtain and presents a “passionate, detailed defense of Louis Le Prince…unfurled with all the cliffhangers and red herrings of a scripted melodrama” (The New York Times Book Review). This “fascinating, informative, skillfully articulated narrative” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) presents the never-before-told history of the motion picture and sheds light on the unsolved mystery of Le Prince’s disappearance.

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349420059

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Real Murders by Charlaine Harris Pdf

'Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray' (Publishers Weekly) #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris introduces a librarian whose bookish bent for murder gets her involved in a real-life killing spree . . . Lawrenceton, Georgia, may be a growing suburb of Atlanta, but it's still a small town at heart. Librarian Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden grew up there and knows more than enough about her fellow townsfolk, including which ones share her interest in the darker side of human nature . . . With those fellow crime buffs, Roe belongs to a club called Real Murders, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime - until the night she finds a member dead, killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. As other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspects-or potential victims . . . 'Clearly focused plot, animated description of character and real estate, and sparkling prose commend this breath of fresh air to all collections' (Library Journal) 'Great bloody fun' (Barbara Paul)

Author : Joanne Fluke
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617731242

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke Pdf

First in the New York Times-bestselling mystery series: “A cleverly plotted cozy full of appealing characters and delicious cookie recipes.”—Publishers Weekly Take one amateur sleuth. Mix in some eccentric Minnesota locals. Add a generous dollop of crackling suspense, and you've got the recipe for this mystery series featuring Hannah Swensen, the red-haired, cookie-baking heroine whose gingersnaps are almost as tart as her comments and whose penchant for solving crime is definitely stirring things up. While dodging her mother’s attempts to marry her off, Hannah runs The Cookie Jar, Lake Eden’s most popular bakery. But after Ron LaSalle, the beloved deliveryman from the Cozy Cow Dairy, is found murdered behind her bakery—with Hannah’s famous Chocolate Chip Crunchies scattered around him—she’s determined not to let her cookies get a bad reputation, so she sets out to track down a killer. But if she doesn’t watch her back, Hannah’s sweet life may get burned to a crisp. “Culinary cozies don’t get any tastier than this winning series.”—Library Journal

Author : A.E. Eddenden
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780897334280

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Murder at the Movies by A.E. Eddenden Pdf

Once more we meet the inimitable Inspector Albert V. Tretheway and his colleague, Constable Jonathan (Jake) Small, in the Canadian city of Fort York in 1939. Pranks begin when Tretheway's beloved bowler hat disappears. Three weeks later Tretheway and Jake investigate a nervous neighbor's report about an anonymous phone tip that her long-dead husband is in her garage. They find instead a live horse wearing Tretheway's missing bowler. The pranks escalate, and only Tretheway connects them and surmises they are movie-inspired. The guessing game begins. Which movie is next? When the fourth prank involves a pre-dug grave, the Hindu Goddess Kali and the murder of a popular Bugle-Major, Tretheway spearheads a chase, cerebral and physical, through more movie murder adventures to a fiery spectacular finale.

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476639666

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Murder Movie Makers by Matthew Edwards Pdf

Serial killers, mass murderers, spree killers, outlaws, and real-life homicidal maniacs have long held a grim fascination for both filmmakers and viewers. Since the 1970s, hundreds of films and television movies have been made covering killers from Charles Manson to Ted Bundy and the Zodiac Killer creating a uniquely morbid sub-genre within horror and thrillers. This collection of interviews sheds light on 17 filmmakers and screenwriters who tackled this controversial subject while attempting to explore the warped world of infamous killers. The interviews include John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), Tom Hanson (The Zodiac Killer), David Wickes (Jack the Ripper), Chris Gerolmo (Citizen X), Chuck Parello (The Hillside Stranglers), David Jacobson (Dahmer) and Clive Saunders on his ill-fated experience directing Gacy. Offering candid insights into the creative process behind these movies, the interviews also show the pitfalls and moral controversy the filmmakers had to wrestle with to bring their visions to the screen.

Author : Esther Luttrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615852025

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Murder in the Movies by Esther Luttrell Pdf

Former film industry insider Katlin Wallace returns to her Hollywood stomping grounds to find it's as crazy as ever. Surrounded by drama, heartbreak, backstabbing and murder, she finds herself involved in a fight for her life. An adventure that could take her breath away - permanently.

Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307756060

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Murder by the Book by Rex Stout Pdf

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review Introduction by David Handler It wasn’t Leonard Dykes’s writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the unfortunate author himself, and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel killer. So the genius sleuth directs his sidekick to set a trap . . . and discovers that the truth is far stranger—and far bloodier—than fiction. A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained—and puzzled—millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.

Author : Duane Byrge
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1097989682

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The Red Carpet at Cannes by Duane Byrge Pdf

Hollywood New Times film critic Ryan Hackbart is whisked down the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, dragged in by the French National Police as a suspect in the murder of the lead actress of the festival's opening-night film. Interrogated but released, Ryan is still considered a prime suspect. His passport confiscated, and now hounded by the world media, Ryan's movie-mind clues him that he is the fall guy in a Hitchcock-like thriller - he must solve the murder before the culprit kills him or the police arrest him. Aided by an indomitable female companion, Delisha, Ryan's investigation thrusts him inside the most glamorous film festival in the world and opens his eyes to what is underneath Cannes' red carpet. He's engulfed into a dangerous maelstrom of celebrity, high-fashion, egos, fake news, Russian billionaires and ruthless wannabees. A murder mystery/romance, The Red Carpet at Cannes is a captivating, behind-the-scenes look at the glitz, intrigue, and romance of the world's most celebrated film festival. It's a five-star travelogue straight into a celebrity universe: dazzling parties, scrumptious cuisine, superstar celebrities, high fashion, and movie-world politics.

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307576019

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The Innocent Man by John Grisham Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, The Innocent Man reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book no American can afford to miss. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393345049

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The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

"Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." —The New Yorker For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death of a woman named Helen Kimmel who was murdered by her husband, Walter finds himself under intense scrutiny. He commits several blunders that claim his career and his reputation, cost him his friends, and eventually threaten his life. The Blunderer examines the dark obsessions that lie beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary people. With unerring psychological insight, Patricia Highsmith portrays characters who cross the precarious line separating fantasy from reality.

Author : Frederick Knott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Film adaptations
ISBN : IND:30000104230754

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Dial 'M' for murder by Frederick Knott Pdf

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000109200

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Pdf

"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" introduces readers to the iconic Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's debut novel. Set against the backdrop of a country estate, Styles Court, this classic mystery unfolds as Poirot investigates the poisoning of wealthy heiress Emily Inglethorp. As secrets, motives, and suspicious characters abound, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through Christie's masterful storytelling and intricate plot twists. With her keen sense of mystery and astute character development, Christie lays the foundation for a genre-defining career. "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" is a must-read for fans of detective fiction, marking the beginning of Poirot's legendary adventures and showcasing Christie's brilliance in crafting perplexing puzzles that keep readers guessing until the final revelation.