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Developing the detective story – 3

Feb 29, 2012 Comments Off by

(……) This is how my interest was sparked. By now it wouldn’t matter if the real story turned out to be a hoax or a concise London-like stylistic feature, the question that came to mind was “what are harmless goldfish doing in one of the most violent and harsh thriller mysteries of the 20th century?” [...]

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Developing the detective story – 2

Feb 15, 2012 No Comments by

(…) All this is not good because it is complicated, while the art of crime is simple, we must never forget! What moves the “knife of the murderer” is never something sophisticated, or better, it can be in the form, but certainly never in the content (motive). The murderer is always driven by something very [...]

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Developing the detective story – 1

Feb 01, 2012 No Comments by

Detective stories have been developed and written but they weren’t always done “so well”. And the few sensible lines on the topic were written by Raymond Chandler, author of Goldfish, indeed, in his “Ten rules of detective stories”, which appeared in the early 1930s on the pages of the hard-boiled magazine, Black Mask, the mother [...]

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Bonelli = insonnia

Oct 05, 2011 2 Comments

Sergio Bonelli = insonnia… lo so, può sembrare strano… sarebbero tante le equazioni possibili: Bonelli = estate, Bonelli = mare, Bonelli = tempo libero, Bonelli = viaggio, Bonelli = Amazzonia… e sono tutte stupende… Bonelli = notti bianche a leggere i suoi fumetti, dunque ancora, Bonelli = insonnia. Questa è l’idea del grande editore che [...]

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