Introducing the new Bengali detective-aide duo, Saranya Shankar Sen and Shankhajit Basu, both college professors by profession, engaged in bringing about a solution to a killing of the most intriguing kind, Red-Rum muR-deR is sure to test the readers’ logical acumen and speculative deftness. With debauchery hidden behind aestheticism, hypocrisy wrapped in poetry and sensuality in the guise of erudition, the book, a murder mystery by genre, incorporates palindromes to hurl the readers into the whirls of an enigma.
Dr. Gabrielle Michaels, a 4th year residency of oncology at Northwestern University hospital in Chicago Illinois, has a feeling she is being watched, that her life is under a microscope, and she has every reason to believe her mild obscurity of paranoia because unfortunately for Gabrielle, she’s right. Somone has a disturbing watchful eye on Dr. Michaels. The past has a dreadful way of reoccurring again. For Gabrielle’s sake, circumstances of the death of a childhood friend and love who is locked away in her heart and she refuses to let go, somehow lingers to unsolved murders of two Chicago police officers. Those unsolved murders of two Chicago police officers are reopened when a prominent white defense attorney is found hanging dead in his home. Gabrielle may have reason to believe a friend and mentor of her past, Aaron James a professor at Chicago State University and president of a private political and social activist organization, may be linked to those murders, but has no reason not to trust him. As Gabrielle tries to unravel the light of truth that is filled with lies, conspiracy and plots, more gruesome deaths arise and her life is now somehow a target. Sadly for Dr. Michaels, a dark omen of reality continues to snatch the lives of people close to her, leaving her with a glass full of red rum in which she continues to drink from. This distinctive spellbinding crime drama is a thriller, a masterpiece of divine writing and peculiar lecture that is truly astonishing. Kansas Rae powerful words will speak to you, get your attention, make your head spin, heart race, and may bring you to tears. This novel is guaranteed to become one of your collections of must-reads.
‘This is a well paced and exciting read. More please!’ Alexander McCall Smith ‘It's a rare talent that creates a work that is both whip smart, fast paced and at the same time gloriously genteel. Carter is that talent.’ Amanda Prowse The second Susie Mahl Mystery. If only death came with a warning… Flirtatious American blonde, Miss Hailey Dune, should never have accepted a summer weekend invitation to Fontaburn Hall. But when the Honourable Archibald Cooke Wellingham’s gentrified house party are woken, in the early hours of Sunday morning, it’s too late: Miss Dune’s blood is on their hands. With the aid of well-mannered Detective Chief Inspector Reynolds, intelligent Sergeant Ayari and loyal friend Dr Toby Cropper, Susie Mahl, on a timely commission drawing six racehorses nearby, seizes the opportunity to play detective for a second time. Her inquisitive nature, tenacity for truth and artist’s eye for detail make her ideally suited to the task in hand, but is she getting carried away by her previous triumph - even to the extent of endangering her reputation and her burgeoning relationship with Toby? Enriched with candid observations of the British social classes, insights into the artist’s craft, and a strong dose of good humour, The Colours of Murder is a welcome return of Ali Carter’s amateur sleuth.
Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
A renowned movie critic on film's treatment of one of mankind's darkest behaviors: murder "[Thomson's] analysis of death in Hitchcock movies is gorgeous. His restlessness is palpable. There is an anxiety in this brief, hurried book that suits these political and medical times."--Lisa Schwarzbaum, New York Times Book Review Included in the New York Times Book Review's "Best Books to Give" holiday list, 2020 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.
Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in translation, drawing on case studies that explore the translational norms of contemporary Italian dubbing practices. This monograph makes a distinctive contribution to the study of audiovisual translation and culture specific references in its focus on dubbing as opposed to subtitling, and on contemporary television series, rather than cinema. Irene Ranzato’s research involves detailed analysis of three TV series dubbed into Italian, drawing on a corpus of 95 hours that includes nearly 3,000 CSR translations. Ranzato proposes a new taxonomy of strategies for the translation of CSRs and explores the sociocultural, pragmatic and ideological implications of audiovisual translation for the small screen.
“The Jar is gone. It’s Protector? Dead. There are too many cheese references for anyone’s liking. Can three young officers solve the most formidable mystery this town has seen in decades?” The PAAW Museum opens its gates to tourists once again post the pandemic, inviting the eyes and ears of the world within its forbidden chambers. The Board of the Museum has a goal in mind: to share the secrets they have so fiercely guided for the past seven decades with the hearts who can bear them and the souls who can. The lessons derived from these secrets can help give the world some direction in the unbridled chaos of our generation. It was time for the past to resurface. After all, a past kept hidden is an earthly life forgotten.
The dark shadows and offscreen space that force us to imagine violence we cannot see. The real slaughter of animals spliced with the fictional killing of men. The missing countershot from the murder victim’s point of view. Such images, or absent images, Karla Oeler contends, distill how the murder scene challenges and changes film. Reexamining works by such filmmakers as Renoir, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Jarmusch, and Eisenstein, Oeler traces the murder scene’s intricate connections to the great breakthroughs in the theory and practice of montage and the formulation of the rules and syntax of Hollywood genre. She argues that murder plays such a central role in film because it mirrors, on multiple levels, the act of cinematic representation. Death and murder at once eradicate life and call attention to its former existence, just as cinema conveys both the reality and the absence of the objects it depicts. But murder shares with cinema not only this interplay between presence and absence, movement and stillness: unlike death, killing entails the deliberate reduction of a singular subject to a disposable object. Like cinema, it involves a crucial choice about what to cut and what to keep.
'Been reading this on m'olidays. It's perfectly ridiculous & also v funny...' - Dawn French 'Curtain Call To Murder positively explodes with the double-entendres and vicious wit that has become his trademark.' DAILY EXPRESS A murder on stage. A cast full of suspects. Can dresser to the stars Jayne unravel the mystery? It is opening night at the London Palladium, and tensions are running high amongst the feuding cast of "Leopard Spots." Amongst them are an ageing lothario, a national treasure, an amateur psychic and a comedian-turned actor all vying for the spotlight. When an on-stage accident forces an unexpected intermission, it is clear only to dresser to the stars Jayne that the drama has turned deadly. Can she step out of the wings and identify the killer before it is too late? Or will murder make an encore... Discover the year's most entertaining, devious and fabulous mystery from author, actor and comedian Julian Clary
