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...Rohmer, whose Fu Manchu books, he predicts, are a sure bet for rediscovery-at least by the camp set. But some of the best contemporary mystery writers remain curiously underappreciated. Among them are Englishman Andrew Garve (The Cuckoo Line Affair); John D. MacDonald, the O'Hara of the whodunit; Australia's Arthur W. Upfield, whose detective hero, Napoleon Bonaparte, is half aborigine; Donald Hamilton, whose Matt Helm is a sort of Yankee 007; and Ed McBain, a master of suspenseful prose, who in real life is Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: SUMMER READING: Risks, Rules & Rewards | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...drudgery of espionage engrossing, though his overzealous camera style occasionally impedes the action. He films through keyholes, transoms, and parking meters, mounts wild-angled shots from floor or ceiling until, finally, a fly's-eye view of a corpse, framed in a dangling lampshade, begins to make whodunit seem less important than how it was done. But when Furie abates, Ipcress proves again that one of the primal pleasures of moviegoing is a tingling, no-nonsense suspense yarn enlivened by honest good humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Freed from Bondage | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

After 131 years of medical claims and counterclaims, of whodunit-style charges and countercharges, the loud controversy over the alleged anti-cancer drug Krebiozen seemed headed at last toward orderly disposition. A federal grand jury in Chicago handed up an 85-page indictment listing 49 counts against Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, 71, three associates and a corporation. The charges ranged from mail fraud and conspiracy to mislabeling and making false statements to Government agencies about the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer: Indicting Krebiozen | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jun. 7, 1963 | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

Speculations About Jakob, by Uwe Johnson. Writing in a fragmented style, another gifted young German uses a whodunit plot to explore the small tensions and concerns of his divided world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: may 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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