The Mysterious Romance of Murder
Crime, Detection, and the Spirit of Noir
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Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In The Mysterious Romance of Murder, the poet and critic David Lehman explores a wide variety of outstanding books and movies—some famous (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity), some known mainly to aficionados—with style, wit, and passion.
Lehman revisits the smoke-filled jazz clubs from the classic noir films of the 1940s, the iconic set pieces that defined Hitchcock's America, the interwar intrigue of Eric Ambler's best fictions, and the intensity of attraction between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. He also considers the evocative elements of noir-cigarettes, cocktails, wisecracks, and jazz standards—and offers five original noir poems (including a pantoum inspired by the 1944 film Laura) and ironic astrological profiles of Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, and Graham Greene. Written by a connoisseur with an uncanny feel for the language and mood of mystery, espionage, and noir, The Mysterious Romance of Murder will delight fans of the genre and newcomers alike.
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Compiled by a veteran writer of the comic series, this collection of essays explores Batman’s motivations and actions, as well as those of his foes. Batman is a creature of the night, more about vengeance than justice, more plagued by doubts than full of self-assurance, and more darkness than light. He has no superpowers, just skill, drive, and a really well-made suit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eccentric Essays Batman!
- De arthur m ball en 10-24-14
De: Dennis O'Neil - editor, y otros
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Careless People
- Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
- De: Sarah Churchwell
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 128
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books, delighting audiences across the world. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail the relation of Fitzgerald's classic to the chaotic world he in which he lived. Fitzgerald set his novel in 1922, and Careless People carefully reconstructs the crucial months during which Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald returned to New York in the autumn of 1922.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating study of the Fitzgeralds and Jazz Age
- De Sand en 06-11-14
De: Sarah Churchwell
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The Art of the English Murder
- From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early 19th century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should Come With a Spoiler Alert
- De Jessica en 04-15-16
De: Lucy Worsley
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The Devil Finds Work
- An Essay
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 119
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Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Critical Masterpiece.
- De Ramon McGee en 05-10-18
De: James Baldwin
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
- De: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eerie and fascinating
- De Jikai Zenshin en 03-19-21
De: Roberto Bolaño, y otros
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Made Men
- The Story of Goodfellas
- De: Glenn Kenny
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 155
When Goodfellas first hit the theaters in 1990, a classic was born. Few could anticipate the unparalleled influence it would have on pop culture, one that would inspire future filmmakers and redefine the gangster picture as we know it today. From the rush of grotesque violence in the opening scene to the iconic hilarity of Joe Pesci’s endlessly quoted “Funny how?” shtick, it’s little wonder the film is widely regarded as a mainstay in contemporary cinema.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mostly script-reading and pedantic film criticism
- De Buretto en 09-26-20
De: Glenn Kenny
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The Golden Age of Murder
- De: Martin Edwards
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets. This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world's most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on years of in-depth research, it reveals the astonishing story of how members such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers reinvented detective fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as an audiobook
- De Pat en 08-02-15
De: Martin Edwards
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Chasing the Light
- Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
- De: Oliver Stone
- Narrado por: Oliver Stone
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 261
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 258
An intimate memoir by the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Impressive
- De Merle O. Tanner en 10-07-20
De: Oliver Stone
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Story
- Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
- De: Robert McKee
- Narrado por: Robert McKee
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,255
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,508
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,474
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress, and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese, and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives, and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Only 5 Chapters
- De Stephen Buck en 02-15-11
De: Robert McKee
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Dead Famous
- An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
- De: Greg Jenner
- Narrado por: Greg Jenner
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realize. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who launched a violent feud with her former best friend; or Edmund Kean, the dazzling Shakespearean actor whose monstrous ego and terrible alcoholism saw him nearly murdered by his own audience....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Performance!
- De Leanna Humble en 11-01-24
De: Greg Jenner
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock
- An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
- De: Edward White
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Author Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon - what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. Illuminating different aspects of Hitchcock's life and work, the book's 12 chapters reveal something fundamental about the man he was and the mythological creature he has become, presenting not just the life Hitchcock lived, but also the various versions of himself that he projected and those projected on his behalf.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good History of Hitch
- De aaron en 07-31-21
De: Edward White
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
- De: Bob Dylan
- Narrado por: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 233
Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. And while ostensibly about music, they are really meditations on the human condition.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs chapter headings
- De kaon en 12-22-22
De: Bob Dylan
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City Boy
- My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
- De: Edmund White
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
In the New York of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pretense upon pretense.
- De Shalin Desai en 06-01-15
De: Edmund White
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A Bright and Guilty Place
- Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
- De: Richard Rayner
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
In A Bright and Guilty Place, an exhilarating tale of murder in L.A., Richard Rayner finds the source of the city's darkness in real-life events that unfolded in the 1920s, when the booming early years of L.A. started to shade into the Depression, and the city of sunshine revealed the hidden darkness and corruption at its heart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Didn't hold my interest
- De Hopesurvives en 11-03-17
De: Richard Rayner
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The Sinner and the Saint
- Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
- De: Kevin Birmingham
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 74
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The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story - and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and literary banishment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book about F.D.'s amazing journey
- De Amazon Customer en 01-23-22
De: Kevin Birmingham
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Talking About Detective Fiction
- De: P. D. James
- Narrado por: Diana Bishop
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal thoughts and observations on one of the most popular and enduring forms of literature, P. D. James examines the challenges, achievements and potential of a genre which has fascinated her as a novelist for nearly 50 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Informative
- De Nancy J en 03-17-13
De: P. D. James
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Bop Apocalypse
- Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
- De: Martin Torgoff
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Martin Torgoff details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving together the disparate elements that formed this new segment of the American fabric. Channeling his decades of writing experience, Torgoff connects the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the first drug laws, Louis Armstrong, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, swing, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, the Savoy Ballroom, Charlie Parker, the birth of bebop, the rise of the Beat Generation, and the launch of heroin in Harlem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating read
- De Ryan en 06-27-17
De: Martin Torgoff