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Roald Dahl

Feasting on Murder: A Highly Subjective List of the Top Ten Classic Foodie Mysteries

By Amy Pershing

February 23, 2021

How does one account for the sheer number of mysteries in which food, both for good and evil, features prominently? So prominently that it’s virtually a character itself—or at least a character witness. Perhaps it’s because food (the cooking of it, the eating of it, the sharing of it) offers so many lovely options for…

Desert Island Books with Anna Downes

By Anna Downes

July 13, 2020

Ever since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. When I was a child, you couldn’t enter our house without catching snippets of Michael Parkinson or Sue Lawley chatting to Joanna Lumley, Eric Clapton, or Princess Michael of Kent about their most treasured pieces of music. As…

Alfred Hitchcock Presents...

The Big Literary Guns Behind Alfred Hitchcock Presents

By William I. Lengeman III

March 4, 2012

I’ve watched a number of episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents over the years and given that it recently began airing on the Encore Suspense cable channel not long ago, I’m sure I’ll watch quite a few more. What I didn’t realize was what a formidable presence it was in its day. The show kicked off…

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