Lightweight piffle. One year after John Huston put “The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre” into cinemas Old Man Lovejoy – a ‘heart case in a wheel chair, with a good-looking nurse’ – hires manly Al Colby to safeguard a packet of Incan parchment telling of “the Treasure of Amarú”. An adventure singularly ...
bookshelves: winter-20102011, play-dramatisation, mystery-thriller Read on January 09, 2011 BBC blurb - David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Now, Jean Buchanan's ...
bookshelves: winter-20102011, play-dramatisation, mystery-thriller Read on January 09, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...BBC blurb - David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Gr...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x88bs/Saturday_Play_To_Catch_a_Thief/BBC blurb - David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Now, Jean Buchanan's dramatisation bring...
An American con man named Curly gets involved with a beautiful English heiress on a French beach. Soon he gets into trouble and flees all over the world to escape it. But can he ever escape her?Sometimes the Hard Case crime series coughs up a book that makes me want to seek out and devour every bo...
A more globe-trotting, Indiana Jones-influencing, entry from Hard Case. Excellent as always.
I really liked the other Dodge novel (Plunder of the Sun) that I read, but this ended up being one of the few books that I just gave up on partway through. It wasn't bad, per se, it simply went nowhere.
The book was just “ok”. I continued reading to find when the "this is what happened in the past" section to end and for the "real" story to begin. Plot seems more like disjointed short stories barely connected, and most of the story is told in a somewhat annoying, tension draining, "this is what ha...
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