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    May 11, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Charlotte, Oscar & Co.

    Where better for a writer to turn for inspiration than to reality? This is especially true of the mystery fiction micro-trend in which authors fashion real-life figures into detectives. It's tricky territory because the margin of error is so tiny. For every "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution," the 1974 novel in which author Nicholas Meyer brought Sigmund Freud into the orbit of Sherlock Holmes, there is "Dead, Mr. Mozart," Bernard Bastable's less-than-stellar 1995 book in which the famed composer becomes a detective, or the perplexingly popular Queen Elizabeth I crime novels by Karen Harper.
    Where better for a writer to turn for inspiration than to reality? This is especially true of the mystery fiction micro-trend in which authors fashion real-life figures into detectives. It's tricky territory because the margin of error is so tiny. For...

    Tags: Jane Austen, World War II (1939-1945), Murder, Crimes, William Shakespeare

    2. Jun 28, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Losing Lebanon

    WHILE THE hapless West stands by, a Syrian campaign to retake Lebanon is unfolding as crudely as the plot of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." One by one, three anti-Syrian members of the Lebanese parliament have been murdered, reducing the...

    Tags: Fouad Siniora, Crimes, Politics, Elections, Bombings

    3. May 25, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. The Nordic Mystery Boom

    Americans are often unaware of major cultural trends developing just slightly off the beaten path. Take the Scandinavian Whodunit Boom. A month ago, Karin Fossum's novel, "The Indian Bride," won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery. Fossum, a...

    Tags: Michael Connelly, Riga (Latvia), Crimes, Italy, Crime (genre)

    4. Jul 6, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Serially thrilling

    The serial novel conjures up images of a bygone century, of a time when Charles Dickens made his name by teasing out the life and death of Little Nell in monthly installments. But one need only look to the flurry of posts on Jacket Copy last month...

    Tags: Michael Connelly, Murder, The New York Times, Stephen King, Central Intelligence Agency

    5. Dec 2, 2005 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont'

    Times Staff Writer
    In "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont," Joan Plowright plays an elderly widow who moves to London in search of culture, like minds and the company of her only grandson, Desmond. But the elegant hotel she anticipated turns out to be a shabby pensioners home,...

    Tags: Republic of Ireland, Joan Plowright, Jean-Paul Sartre, Entertainment, Elizabeth Taylor

    6. Jul 19, 2007 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  6. About the Off the Page Contributors

    Chauncey Mabe grew up in Southwest Virginia, where he fell in love with reading in order to learn more about dinosaurs, little suspecting he'd eventually become one himself. A fiercely proud autodidact, he always says he learned everything school had to...

    Tags: Journalism, Jupiter, Rex Stout, Mystery (genre), Ian Fleming

    7. Apr 29, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Chatting with author Jane Smiley

    Administrator: Hello and welcome to the latimes.com live chat with Jane Smiley! Jane is here and ready for your questions. Thanks, Jane! Administrator: What can you tell us about your writing process? Do you have a set method, do you write every day or...

    Tags: History, Mark Twain, Death, Arts and Culture, Fiction

    8. Jun 30, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  8. 'Who Killed the Electric Car?'

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    The new documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" plays out like the most predictable Agatha Christie story ever written. Use your common sense to pick the two or three sources most likely to have put the kibosh on the electric car and those are probably...

    Tags: Ed Begley, Crimes, Passenger Cars, California, Al Gore

    9. Nov 21, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. 'Woyzeck' and 'Backseats & Bathroom Stalls'

    Long before David Fincher reminded us that dread is hard-wired into the soul, German playwright Georg Büchner wrote a few fevered dramas, then dropped dead of typhus at 23. Now Gangbusters Theatre Company presents Büchner's 1836 "Woyzeck," a true crime tale of a working-class soldier driven to violence by the vicious manipulation of his superiors.
    Long before David Fincher reminded us that dread is hard-wired into the soul, German playwright Georg Büchner wrote a few fevered dramas, then dropped dead of typhus at 23. Now Gangbusters Theatre Company presents Büchner's 1836 "Woyzeck," a true crime...

    Tags: Entertainment, Manhattan (New York City), Comedy (genre), Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Death

    10. Jun 1, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Crossing borders

    The indomitable spirit of a woman responding to the oppressive patriarchy that surrounds her is at the center of the forceful Iranian drama <strong>"Border Caf&#233;."</strong> Written and directed by noted screenwriter Kambozia Partovi ("The Circle"), the film takes place near the Turkish border, an area where European and Persian cultures intersect.
    Times Staff Writer
    The indomitable spirit of a woman responding to the oppressive patriarchy that surrounds her is at the center of the forceful Iranian drama "Border Café." Written and directed by noted screenwriter Kambozia Partovi ("The Circle"), the film takes place...

    Tags: Literature, Weddings, Drama (genre), Sarah Polley, Television Industry

    11. Aug 31, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Meta-murderers

    The majority of current crime fiction adheres to a well-worn template, even if writers don't admit as such. A murder turns carefully crafted order into chaos, and the process of investigation not only unearths how deep those layers of chaos are but also restores a sense of order with the murder's solution -- however illusory. Nowadays, that template acts as a bass line for the progression of a variety of character-driven melodies and harmonies based on plot and setting, and the whiff of formula is fading into the background of literary chord progressions. Today's readers are invested more in human behavior at its most extreme than in the intellectual exercises of a previous age of mystery that we call a Golden one.
    The majority of current crime fiction adheres to a well-worn template, even if writers don't admit as such. A murder turns carefully crafted order into chaos, and the process of investigation not only unearths how deep those layers of chaos are but also...

    Tags: Vladimir Nabokov, Murder, Crimes, Genres, Crime (genre)

    12. Apr 20, 2007 |Story| Zap2It

  12. Hot Fuzz

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    In its climactic village assault, the English comedy "Hot Fuzz" risks becoming the excessive, slow-mo-slaughter affair it's satirizing. But the best of it is a riot -- a "Bad Boys II" fireball hurled with exquisite accuracy at a quaint English town...

    Tags: New York City Police Department, Bars and Clubs, Chicago Tribune, Michael Bay, Crimes

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