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Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Some time ago while I discussed the artistic authorship of the Alien morphology (I mean the space monster whose exploits were inaugurated by Ridley Scott) with a guy (you know, everyone has their own way of wasting time), I noticed with some surprise that it was impossible to change his opinion, because he was a
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Developing the detective story – 3
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
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) This is how my interest was sparked. By now it wouldn’t matter if the real story turned out to be a hoax or a concise London-like stylistic feature, the question that came to mind was “what are harmless goldfish doing in one of the most violent and harsh thriller mysteries of the 20th century?”
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Developing the detective story – 2
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
(…) All this is not good because it is complicated, while the art of crime is simple, we must never forget! What moves the “knife of the murderer” is never something sophisticated, or better, it can be in the form, but certainly never in the content (motive). The murderer is always driven by something very
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Developing the detective story – 1
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Detective stories have been developed and written but they weren’t always done “so well”. And the few sensible lines on the topic were written by Raymond Chandler, author of Goldfish, indeed, in his “Ten rules of detective stories”, which appeared in the early 1930s on the pages of the hard-boiled magazine, Black Mask, the mother
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