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Entry #516

gervase_fen Apr 19, 2017 21:02

Off to the unknown but unprejudiced shores of Dreamwidth.

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Screen 2017 : Jigsaw (1962), My Brother's Keeper (1948), Hell Drivers (1957)

gervase_fen Jan 05, 2017 02:11

( Dixon x 2, Bond, Steel, Drake and the Doctor )

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Missing Believed Wiped Central, 12th November 2016

gervase_fen Dec 08, 2016 07:39

A few weeks ago I was thrilled to accompany parrot_knight to the my first Kaleidoscope event since 2009. 2016 has turned out to be grim in plenty of aspects, but in terms of recoveries of lost television it’s been a proverbial annus mirabilis.
( A 6 a.m. start on a cold, blustery morning... )

mbw, archive tv

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Daggerology

gervase_fen Jul 28, 2016 16:52

Here are this year's shortlists in the categories that I'm particularly interested in:

Goldsboro Gold Dagger, Best Crime Novel of the Year:
Black Widow, Chris Brookmyre
Blood Salt Water, Denise Mina
Dodgers, Bill Beverly
Real Tigers, Mick Herron

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, Thriller of the Year:
Make Me, Lee Child
Rain Dogs, Adrian McKinty
Real Tigers ( Read more... )

daggers

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Disordered Daggers : Dead Pretty by David Mark (2016)

gervase_fen Jul 18, 2016 18:48

( Aector's House )

daggers, longlisted, gold

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Disordered Daggers : Make Me by Lee Child (2015)

gervase_fen Jun 04, 2016 03:02

( Westwood clicked off his database and opened up a web browser. Then he glanced at the door and said, “So I guess we’re really doing this.” “No one will know, “ Reacher said. “Until the movie comes out.” )

steel, daggers, longlisted

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Disordered Daggers : Dodgers by Bill Beverly (2016)

gervase_fen Jun 02, 2016 15:10

( East dreamed interstate dreams, dreams he’d never had before, choppy, worrying. Running the wrong way, or driving against oncoming traffic, or impossible land : a highway emptying into a river, a bridge wobbling, a prairie breaking up. Or ahead of them in the east, L.A., with its smog and brown mountain scrim, where it shouldn’t be. All the land - people talked about America, someday you should see it, you should drive across it all. They didn’t say how it got into your head. )

daggers, longlisted, gold, new blood

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Disordered Daggers : Real Tigers by Mick Herron (2016)

gervase_fen May 30, 2016 02:59

( You could feasibly throw a tennis ball and cover the distance between Slough House and St Giles Cripplegate, but if you wanted your ball back, it might take a while. For there was no straight route through the Barbican, which resembled an Escher drawing assembled in brick by a spook architect, its primary purpose being not so much to keep you from getting where you were going, but to leave you unsure about where you’d been. Every path led to a junction resembling the one you’d just left, offering routes to nowhere you wanted to go. And set down in the middle of all this, like a paddle steamer in an airport, was the fourteenth century church of St Giles, within whose walls John Milton prayed and Shakespeare daydreamed; which had survived fire, war and restoration, and which now reposed serenely on a brick-tiled square, offering quiet for those needing respite from the city’s buzz, and a resting place for poor sods who’d got lost, and given up hope of rescue. )

steel, daggers, longlisted, gold

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Disordered Daggers : The Second Man by Edward Grierson (1956)

gervase_fen May 23, 2016 01:48

( Slowly, with a perfect economy, she drove the witness to the wall. At first he was unwisely contemptuous of her and showed it. It did him no good. He was sarcastic; he scored; and his scores rebounded. She turned his words. She held them up; comparing them, and presented them to him again; and got fresh answers and played with these. I have never heard a witness so condemned out of his own mouth. Yet at the end she was still treating him in the same way; as though she trusted him and expected the truth and found herself bewildered by the lies that came up like changelings. )

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The Colours Out of (an Adventure in) Space (and Time)

gervase_fen May 06, 2016 21:25

( The Changing Face of... )

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