Sentences with phrase «classic private eye»
Advance praise for Don't Talk to Strangers «An explosive read... Amanda Kyle Williams sets the classic private eye novel on fire.»
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Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice begins in classic private eye fashion.
According to an official description, Too Late «takes the spine of the classic private eye genre and tears it to pieces, weaving it back together into a tapestry of southern California and the menagerie of eccentric personalities and lost souls who inhabit it.»
If Raymond Chandler and Chuck Jones had ever sat down together over a few beers, this is what they might have come up with: a fantastic amalgam of classic private eye mystery and brilliant razzle - dazzle Looney Tunes cartoonery — undoubtedly the greatest animated film noir feature ever made.
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The Ross Macdonald Collection: 11 Classic Lew Archer Novelsby ross macdonaldedited by tom nolanlibrary of america, 3 volumes, 2618 pages, $ 112.50 Near the end of Find a Victim, Ross Macdonald's 1954 novel of murder and hijacking in a small California town, private eye Lew Archer suggests to....
In 1941, the same year he played Sam Spade, private eye, one of the greatest of all movie detectives, in John Huston's classic film noir «The Maltese Falcon,» Humphrey Bogart also played one of the greatest of all movie gangsters, Roy Earle, in Raoul Walsh «s classic noir, «High Sierra.»
Crooked House (PG - 13 for sexuality and mature themes) Adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic crime novel of the same name about a private eye (Max Irons) hired by an ex-lover (Stefanie Martini) to investigate the mysterious murder of her wealthy grandfather (Gino Picciano).
It's the classic hardboiled private - eye movie; the nervy maiden offering of its celebrated director, John Huston; the first glamorous star vehicle for Humphrey Bogart, an icon of American cinema and the 20th century's definition of existential cool; and still the most triumphantly well - cast movie from Hollywood's golden age (rivaled only by Casablanca).
Lest you think classic noir is limited to private - eye offices, police stations and penthouse apartments, director Edmund Goulding's flick transports us to the seedy world of traveling carnivals.
The cutting - edge stories appearing in the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine have won numerous awards and run the gamut of mystery's subgenres from the classic whodunit to hardboiled private - eye tales to pure suspense.
Martinez crafts a private eye in the best tradition of hard - boiled futuristic detection, with plenty of beautiful babes and evil geniuses, and written in classic wisecracking first - person narrative.
A moody tale that combines the intrigue and atmosphere of a Raymond Chandler novel or Humphrey Bogart film with classic point - and - click adventure gameplay, Face Noir follows private eye Jack Del Nero as he's falsely accused of murdering the man who left a little girl in his protection.