THE TOP TEN EDITH HEAD MOVIES Trying to select the ten best films featuring costumes designed by Edith Head verges on the impossible. Even she lost track of how many films she’d worked on. She began her career in the 1920s dressing elephants (she mistakenly used real flowers, which the pachyderms promptly ate) and ended […]
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Ten Crime Novels for People Who Don’t Read Crime Novels
Ten Crime Novels for People Who Don’t Read Crime Novels Back when I started writing The Day I Died, it was not a crime novel. It was not a novel. It was a short story. Today, my novel is a phoenix rising from the ashes of what is commonly known among writers as the “drawer” […]
The Top Six Victorian Novels to Read After Watching Sherlock
The Top Six Victorian Novels to Read After Watching Sherlock You’ve had your fix of Mr. Cumberbatch on screen and Conan Doyle on the page. Now you want more. Why not take a look at these novels, which exemplify the richness of detective/ crime/suspense fiction in Victorian England—sensational novels that, as contemporaries said, “preached to […]