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...Sleuth--Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 p.m.; Leverett Dining Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: harvard | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

This is no small achievement for any novel. For what is essentially an espionage tale, it is a signal for rejoicing. In Arkady Renko, the U.S.S.R. finally has an exportable sleuth. In Martin Cruz Smith, 38, the U.S. at last has a domestic Le Carré. -By Stefan Kanfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Moral, Exportable Sleuth | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...Cross. For the uninitiated. Cross novels feature the redoubtable Kate Fansler, a tenured 16th-century English literature professor at a New York City university, much like Columbia. Fortyish, WASPish, with a casual marriage to an assistant district attorney and a prodigious capacity for alcohol. Fansler moonlights as an academic sleuth. Leaving details like fingerprints and forensics to the police. Fansler sleuths by intuition and cunning. She does not carry...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Alfred? Bate? Heimert? Levin? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...residence while working on a movie intended as the star's comeback after a miscarriage and a nervous breakdown. One of the locals is murdered at a reception they give, and a little later the director's secretary succumbs in unpleasant circumstances. Miss Marple, the spinster sleuth-played agreeably by Lansbury in a more subdued style than is her custom or that of her glorious predecessor in the role, Margaret Rutherford-solves the case, almost by remote control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Off the Wall | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Victor Sen Yung, 65, San Francisco-born actor who played the "No. 1 Son" of Movie Sleuth Charlie Chan in the 1930s and 1940s and later was noted for his role as the cook Hop Sing on the long-running TV series Bonanza; of suffocation; in North Hollywood, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 24, 1980 | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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