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CHOICE CUTS by Thomas Boileau & Pierre Narcejac. 207 pages. Dutton...
...could spend an enjoyable morning strolling through an operating theater or casualty ward of a hospital can fail to have an entertaining and enjoyable time with Choice Cuts, as nasty a piece of fiction as ever came out of France. Authors Boileau and Narcejac have apparently concluded that two hacks joined together will make one writer, and furthermore that parts of seven people stitched together make up one man. Neither assumption is correct...
Worked up from a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, the French team that wrote Diabolique and Demo-niaque, this picture tells what happens to a victim of vertigo (James Stewart) when he meets a dizzy blonde (Kim Novak). When she goes round in circles, he goes round in circles too-until he falls. Jimmy is cast as a gumshoe who has drawn the enviable assignment of keeping a private eye on Kim. The lady's husband (Tom Helmore) is afraid that his bride, in the grip of a suicidal depression, may head for the deep...
...Woman Who Was No More is an offbeat French mystery. It has no hero, and its principal character is an intellectual pygmy who is as real as mud and just as unenterprising. His creators, French Authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, have built him into the base of a very French triangle of adulterous villains and victims. They make of it a crisply written, ingenious novel of suspense that is calculated to grip a reader right up to its sardonic last line...
...mystery is not likely to puzzle the reader as much as poor Ravinel, but Authors Boileau and Narcejac keep the reader guessing the rest of it to the Gallic...
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