Curtain, a book published in 1975, featured the death of which detective?
"once in Egypt he attempted to warn a murderer before the person committed the crime. That case is the one retold in ""Death on the Nile"". He mentions that there was another case in which he had done the same thing: almost certainly that retold in “Triangle at Rhodes” (published in ""Murder in the Mews"" in 1937). In ""The ABC Murders"", Inspector Japp says to Poirot: ""Shouldn't wonder if you ended by detecting your own death;"" an indication that the idea of ""Curtain"" had already formed in the author's mind in 1935. On 6 August 1975, ""The New York Times"""
"Behind That Curtain Behind That Curtain (1928) is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is set almost exclusively in California (as opposed to Chan's native Hawaii), and tells the story of the former head of Scotland Yard, a detective who is pursuing the long-cold trail of a murderer. Fifteen years ago, a London solicitor was killed in circumstances in which the only clue was a pair of Chinese slippers, which he apparently donned just before his death. Sir Frederic Bruce has been following the trail of the killer ever since."
"Curt Gentry Curtis Marsena ""Curt"" Gentry (June 13, 1931 – July 10, 2014) was an American writer, born in Lamar, Colorado. He is best known for co-authoring, with Vincent Bugliosi, the 1974 book ""Helter Skelter"", which detailed the Charles Manson murders. Gentry lived in San Francisco, California. Gentry died, aged 83, on July 10, 2014, in San Francisco. ""Frame-Up"" was a nominee for the 1968 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book. ""Helter Skelter"" won a 1975 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book. ""J. Edgar Hoover"" won"
"the 1992 PEN Center West Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Curt Gentry Curtis Marsena ""Curt"" Gentry (June 13, 1931 – July 10, 2014) was an American writer, born in Lamar, Colorado. He is best known for co-authoring, with Vincent Bugliosi, the 1974 book ""Helter Skelter"", which detailed the Charles Manson murders. Gentry lived in San Francisco, California. Gentry died, aged 83, on July 10, 2014, in San Francisco. ""Frame-Up"" was a nominee for the 1968 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book. ""Helter Skelter"" won a 1975 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America"
"as Sidney Bernstein. Curtains (musical) Curtains is a musical mystery comedy with a book by Rupert Holmes, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, with additional lyrics by Kander and Holmes. Based on the original book and concept of the same name by Peter Stone, the musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts and follows the fallout when Jessica Cranshaw, the supremely untalented star of ""Robbin' Hood of the Old West"" is murdered during her opening night curtain call. It is up to Lt. Frank Cioffi, a police detective who moonlights"
"Curtains (musical) Curtains is a musical mystery comedy with a book by Rupert Holmes, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, with additional lyrics by Kander and Holmes. Based on the original book and concept of the same name by Peter Stone, the musical is a send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts and follows the fallout when Jessica Cranshaw, the supremely untalented star of ""Robbin' Hood of the Old West"" is murdered during her opening night curtain call. It is up to Lt. Frank Cioffi, a police detective who moonlights as a musical"
"mistress, Sonia Orrincourt. Soon after the portrait is finished, Sir Henry, who has been in poor health, dies seemingly of natural causes. Troy returns home and is reunited with her husband. Alleyn is soon assigned to investigate the death, and the case is quickly complicated by another murder. This novel was adapted for the television series ""The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries"", with Patrick Malahide as Roderick Alleyn in 1993. Final Curtain (novel) Final Curtain is a 1947 novel by the New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh. Agatha Troy Alleyn is waiting for the return of her husband Roderick Alleyn after a long"
"obituaries in ""The Times"" and the ""Journal of the Royal Society of Arts"". Clifton Robbins Clifton Robbins (22 October 1890 – 9 December 1964) was an English journalist, writer of golden age detective fiction in the 1930s, and executive of the International Labour Organization. His stories of amateur detectives involved murder and international drug smuggling and he is best known for his series featuring Clay Harrison, a London barrister turned amateur detective, and his clerk Henry. He worked for the International Labour Organization from 1920, ultimately becoming director of the ILO London office in 1945 before retiring in 1950 to"
"but that no one notices. The Judas Window The Judas Window (also published as ""The Crossbow Murder"") is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938 and featuring detective Sir Henry Merrivale. In a poll of 17 mystery writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the fifth best locked room mystery of all time. ""The Hollow Man"" also by John Dickson Carr was voted the best. James Caplon Answell arranges to visit his future father-in-law, Avory Hume, at his house in London. Hume"
"commemorating the Soviet defector. It was from this park that RCMP agents monitored Gouzenko's apartment across Somerset Street the night men from the Soviet embassy came looking for Gouzenko. The story of the Gouzenko Affair was made into the film ""The Iron Curtain"" in 1948, directed by William Wellman, with screenplay by Milton Krims, and starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney as Igor and Anna Gouzenko, produced by Twentieth Century Fox. A chapter on Igor Gouzenko Igor Gouzenko Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko ( ; ; January 13, 1919 – June 28, 1982) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to"
"feature on the DVD release of ""Charlie Chan in Shanghai"". The film ""Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise"" (1940), starring Sidney Toler, Oland's successor in the role, was also based on the novel. Charlie Chan Carries On Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first introduced in ""Behind That Curtain"", is pursuing a murderer on an around-the-world voyage; so far, there have been murders in London, France, Italy and Japan. While his ship is docked in Honolulu, the detective is shot"
"C. H. B. Kitchin Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin (17 October 1895 – 4 April 1967) was a British novelist of the early twentieth century. He was best known for his four mystery novels featuring the sleuth Malcolm Warren (""Death of My Aunt"", ""Crime at Christmas"", ""Death of His Uncle"", and ""The Cornish Fox""), but his other novels were also highly regarded, especially by other writers. His best-known novels are ""The Auction Sale"", ""Streamers Waving"", and ""Mr. Balcony"". He was one of Francis King's two mentors, the other being J. R. Ackerley. His other works include ""The Book of Life"", ""Ten"
"on 27 April 1995 aged 78, he was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease. Peter Wright Peter Maurice Wright (9 August 191627 April 1995) was a principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book ""Spycatcher"", written with Paul Greengrass, became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. ""Spycatcher"" was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. He is said to have been influenced in his counterespionage activity by James Jesus Angleton, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief from 1954 to"
"Alvin Dewey Alvin Adams Dewey (September 10, 1912 – November 6, 1987) was a special agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Dewey was born in Murdock, Kansas, on September 10, 1912, to Alvin Adams Dewey Sr (6 September 1879 – 26 January 1948), originally from Illinois, and Nellie E. Dewey (née Butler; 21 August 1885 – 15 October 1968). Dewey is most known for his role as the chief investigator of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, a case made famous by Truman Capote's 1966 book ""In Cold Blood"". He worked to find the killers,"
"bank clerk, William Sheridan. Sheridan was shot to death by George McLaughlin while in the middle of an armed robbery. In December 1973, O'Toole (who had survived many assassination attempts) was run over and killed by gangland assassin John Martorano while leaving Edward G. Connors' saloon in Savin hill. Dorchester O'Toole and 46-year-old Joseph M. (Rockball) O'Rourke from Medford, Massachusetts were arraigned on charges in 1970 and imprisoned at the same jail while awaiting trial. O'Rourke, a powerful and loyal associate of the Charlestown Mob, was being held for his involvement in the shooting of Boston patrolman Robert Noonan. Detective"
"Kramer) as the husband-and-wife crimefighters. Frances Crane Frances Kirkwood Crane (October 27, 1890 – November 6, 1981) was an American mystery author, who introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, ""The Turquoise Shop"" (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of 26 volumes, each with a color in the title. Crane was born in Lawrenceville, Illinois, and hailed from a wealthy, well-educated family; most of her male relatives were doctors, and her aunt Nancy may have earned a master's degree, highly unusual for a woman of that time. Some biographies mistakenly list"
"Clifton Robbins Clifton Robbins (22 October 1890 – 9 December 1964) was an English journalist, writer of golden age detective fiction in the 1930s, and executive of the International Labour Organization. His stories of amateur detectives involved murder and international drug smuggling and he is best known for his series featuring Clay Harrison, a London barrister turned amateur detective, and his clerk Henry. He worked for the International Labour Organization from 1920, ultimately becoming director of the ILO London office in 1945 before retiring in 1950 to become principal of the Y.M.C.A. College for Adults in Kingsgate, Kent, for eight"
"The Door to December The Door to December is a novel by author Dean Koontz, released in 1985. It was originally released under the pseudonym Richard Paige. When a pair of renowned psychologists are brutally murdered from unexpected causes, Laura McCaffrey is called to assist in the case. Meeting with Dan Haldane, a police lieutenant, she is told that one of the victims was her divorced spouse, Dylan, who kidnapped their only daughter six years ago. While inside the crime scene, police notify Lieutenant Haldane of a naked young girl wandering the streets of Los Angeles in a daze. It"
"number of non-series (and non-mystery) novels. In the mid-1980s, he moved to Pulaski, Tennessee. There, he bought an antebellum farm and became involved in local politics. He died at his home from prostate cancer in 2008. Gregory Mcdonald Gregory Mcdonald (February 15, 1937 – September 7, 2008) was an American mystery writer whose most famous character is investigative reporter Irwin Maurice ""Fletch"" Fletcher. Two of the Fletch books earned Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America: ""Fletch"" was named Best First Novel in 1975, and ""Confess, Fletch"" won for Best Paperback Original in 1977. This is the only time"
"chapters, and weaving back and forth in time. The reader, sharing the various points of view of the alternating characters, is in effect omniscient, knowing many things which are a mystery to the characters themselves. The main plot line centers on Norman Cash, a middle aged police detective sergeant at St. Louis, Missouri and his younger partner John Harald. On 3 March 1975, the police is perplexed at finding a body on a snowbound street. The man had died of unclear causes, cannot be identified or accounted for by any investigation, is not on file anywhere and carried nothing on"
"him to proceed but also decided to take an active role in writing the book. Over the next twenty years, on top of their academic schedules, Breit and Elzinga co-authored three mystery books featuring Harvard economist-sleuth Henry Spearman. The first Henry Spearman Mystery, ""'Murder at the Margin"", came out in 1978, and was followed by ""The Fatal Equilibrium"" (1985) and ""A Deadly Indifference"" (1995). When, in 1978, after a three-year collaboration, the two economists' first foray into crime fiction was eventually published by Thomas Horton and Daughters, there was no indication on the book cover as to the true identity"
"Clandestine (novel) Clandestine is a 1982 crime novel by American author James Ellroy. Set in 1951, the protagonist is ambitious LAPD Officer Fred Underhill. Ellroy dedicated ""Clandestine"", ""to Penny Nagler"". Underhill is a young cop on the rise working out of the Wilshire station. He covers the beat with his partner Herbert Lawton ""Wacky"" Walker, a World War II veteran with a Medal of Honor, a drinking problem, and an obsession with death. Underhill and Walker discover the mutilated and strangled corpse of a young secretary. The trail leads to other murders, new and old, and a beautiful crippled district"
"The Judas Window The Judas Window (also published as ""The Crossbow Murder"") is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938 and featuring detective Sir Henry Merrivale. In a poll of 17 mystery writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the fifth best locked room mystery of all time. ""The Hollow Man"" also by John Dickson Carr was voted the best. James Caplon Answell arranges to visit his future father-in-law, Avory Hume, at his house in London. Hume invites the prospective bridegroom into"
"2017 dollars); among his executors was Chief Superintendent Adolphus Williamson. Jack Whicher Detective Inspector Jonathan ""Jack"" Whicher (1 October 1814–29 June 1881) was one of the original eight members of the newly formed Detective Branch which was established at Scotland Yard in 1842. In 1860 he was involved in the Constance Kent murder case which was the subject of Kate Summerscale's 2008 book ""The Suspicions of Mr Whicher"" and the film of the same name. He was one of the inspirations for Charles Dickens’s Inspector Bucket, Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse, Wilkie Collins's Sergeant Cuff and R. D. Wingfield's Jack Frost,"
"of Dolly Williamson"" and is a fictional story of the detective's involvement in solving a crime with a supernatural killer. The book is considered an example of the steampunk genre. Williamson was buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. Adolphus Williamson Adolphus Frederick ""Dolly"" Williamson (1830 – 9 December 1889) was the first head of the Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police and the first head of the Detective Branch's successor organisation, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). He joined the force in 1850 and eventually became Chief Constable. In the television films ""The Suspicions of Mr Whicher"" (2011) and ""The Suspicions"
"Helter Skelter (book) Helter Skelter (1974) is a book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. Bugliosi had served as the prosecutor in the 1970 trial of Charles Manson. The book presents his firsthand account of the cases of Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and other members of the self-described Manson Family. It is the best-selling true crime book in history. The book recounts and assesses the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of Charles Manson and his followers for the notorious 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, actress Sharon Tate, and several others. The book takes its title from the apocalyptic"
"Gregory Mcdonald Gregory Mcdonald (February 15, 1937 – September 7, 2008) was an American mystery writer whose most famous character is investigative reporter Irwin Maurice ""Fletch"" Fletcher. Two of the Fletch books earned Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America: ""Fletch"" was named Best First Novel in 1975, and ""Confess, Fletch"" won for Best Paperback Original in 1977. This is the only time a novel and its sequel won back-to-back Edgars. Mcdonald would go on to write seven more ""Fletch"" novels, including the prequels ""Fletch Won"" and ""Fletch Too"". The original book became a 1985 movie of the same"
"and Will Hay. The Last Curtain The Last Curtain is a 1937 British crime film directed by David MacDonald and starring Campbell Gullan, Kenne Duncan and Greta Gynt. The film blends drama and comedy and its plot follows an insurance investigator who examines a series of robberies that have taken place. Much of the action takes place backstage at the fictitious Trafalgar Theatre. It was made at Pinewood Studios as a quota quickie. The film's sets were designed by John Bryan. It was the first film for comedy actor Joss Ambler who went on to star with such comedy stalwarts"
"2011. Helter Skelter (book) Helter Skelter (1974) is a book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. Bugliosi had served as the prosecutor in the 1970 trial of Charles Manson. The book presents his firsthand account of the cases of Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and other members of the self-described Manson Family. It is the best-selling true crime book in history. The book recounts and assesses the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of Charles Manson and his followers for the notorious 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, actress Sharon Tate, and several others. The book takes its title from the"
"February 1977, but they could make no new progress, and the investigation was closed. The following year, the collected evidence for the case was destroyed by the Baltimore office of the FBI. Dvora Alon died in 1995 without knowing the identity of her husband's killer. In his book ""Chasing Shadows"" (Palgrave Macmillan), Fred Burton, former deputy chief of the counterterrorism division of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service and Vice-President of the private intelligence and consulting firm Stratfor, concluded after a lengthy investigation that Alon's killer was an agent from Black September who was killed by Mossad in 2011."
"basis as the violence in Northern Ireland showed no signs of abating; however towards the end of that year, he was faced with the first of a series of brutal killings that added a new dimension to the relentless tit-for-tat killings between Catholics and Protestants that had already made 1975 ""one of the bloodiest years of the conflict"". By this time he had already earned 48 commendations for his excellent detective work. On the morning of 25 November after the body of Francis Crossan, a 34-year-old Catholic, was discovered in an entry between Silvio Street and Ambleside Street in the"
"Inspector Arthur Walls in Eastbourne during a burglary attempt), Edith Thompson, Robert Hoolhouse, Neville Heath, Charles Jenkins (hanged in 1947 together with Christopher Geraghty for fatally shooting Alec de Antiquis following a botched London jewel robbery), and James Hanratty. (N.B. This is not the same as the similarly titled 1961 book ""Hanged in Error"" by Leslie Hale, which contains a different set of case histories.) In academic circles, he is especially well known for his studies of the criminal underworld of London from Victorian times, through World War II to the Kray twins. He has written seven biographies and a"
"Frances Crane Frances Kirkwood Crane (October 27, 1890 – November 6, 1981) was an American mystery author, who introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, ""The Turquoise Shop"" (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of 26 volumes, each with a color in the title. Crane was born in Lawrenceville, Illinois, and hailed from a wealthy, well-educated family; most of her male relatives were doctors, and her aunt Nancy may have earned a master's degree, highly unusual for a woman of that time. Some biographies mistakenly list her birth year as 1896."