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Ruth is a woman both of her time and out of it. Like a 1950s moll, she indulges men's fantasies of the blond bombshell; like an '80s woman, she is spikily determined to come to them on her own terms. This sexy, witty film has the texture of a '50s B movie: these are small, doomed people viewed unsentimentally as they take their sport in cramped bedrooms or walk along soot-swathed streets with murder in their eyes. Though Richardson has the showstopper part, Holm is the class act here. With his finicky mustache and sad, knowing eyes...
Still, the best mysteries being published today offer considerably more sophisticated pleasures than creaking doors, cracks on the head or the discovery of a nude, blond and comely corpse on page 32. This year has already seen hard-boiled volumes by Leonard, MacDonald and Robert B. Parker at the peak of their form, and cunning British psychological thrillers by Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Ruth Rendell and the American would-be Briton Martha Grimes. The fall has brought a fresh crop, mostly from other hands. The styles range from taut police procedurals to literary romps, from old-fashioned puzzles to breezily...
...omits Author Joseph Hansen's recurring sleuth, Insurance Investigator Dave Brandstetter, but unfolds in his usual seedy gay Southern California milieu. The central character, Darryl Cutler, is a rogue undone by his few fleeting moments of trust and devotion. A former male prostitute, he becomes infatuated with a blond boy as pretty and venal as he used to be. Cutler knows that he is being used. Even so, his sexual itch drives him to theft, fraud and murder. Each crime makes him more subject to blackmail. The tale moves toward its climax with a mounting sense of catastrophe...
Although he had admitted passing a classified FBI manual to his blond KGB lover Svetlana Ogorodnikova in exchange for promises of $65,000 and a $675 trench coat, the defense insisted that Miller was trying to infiltrate a Soviet spy ring. One of the two jurors who voted against the conviction on three major counts of espionage later told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he felt the confession had been coerced. "He was browbeaten and swayed by the [FBI] interrogation," said the dissenting juror. "He would have signed anything put in front of him." Undeterred, prosecuting U.S. Attorney Robert...
...only similarity between the contestants is that each plays with a red Soviet flag on his side of the table. The darkly handsome Kasparov is a long-distance runner, pop-music buff and sharp dresser who regularly dates a striking blond stage actress, Marina Neolova. But another woman in his life has long been more important. After the death of his Jewish father Kim Wehistein, Kasparov took the maiden name of his Armenian mother Clara; she has ruled his career ever since. At the championships she sat motionless each day in the same third-row seat, watching intensely. Though...