Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
High and Low (1963) - A business executive preparing to takeover his company, must decide between his ambitions and the life of an employee's child.Directed by Akira Kurosawa Starring Toshiro Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya NakadaiWhy I Liked It: When the stars (story, director, star) align, greatness happens.Kingo Gondo (Mifune) has worked at the National Shoe... Continue Reading →
Scarlet Street (1945) - Christopher Cross is a middle aged bank clerk, trapped in an unhappy marriage. One night he rescues, and falls for a beautiful young woman. It turns out, she didn't need or want to be rescued, but convinced that he has money she plots with her grifter boyfriend to clean him out. ... Continue Reading →
Murder Most Foul (1965) - Agatha Christie's Miss Marple finds herself on a jury and disagreeing with everyone else on the guilty verdict. When the accused goes free the police aren't happy. When she decides to figure out who DID commit the murder, their lives get even more complicated and Miss Marple joins a theater... Continue Reading →
Mr.Moto’s Last Warning (1939) - The great detective must stop a plot to mine the Suez Canal and drag the British into an international incident. Director: Starring Peter Lorre John Carradine, Virginia Field, George Sanders Why I Liked It: Lorre is charming as the master detective. This movie presents a problem right from the start... Continue Reading →
A Crafter Quilts A Crime by Holly Quinn (2020) (Crooked Lane Books) - It’s the middle of winter in a small town in Wisconsin. Sammy Kane is looking for a way for her local craft shop to stand out during the annual Heartsford Fire and Ice event. So she invites friends to be store window... Continue Reading →
The 7 ½ Deaths ofEvelyn Hardcastle (2018) by Stuart Turton Aiden Church wakes up in a forest. He has no idea who he is, where he is or what’s going on. There’s a scream, a gunshot, and somewhere a girl named Anna. Before his ordeal is over he will possess eight people’s bodies, be beaten,... Continue Reading →
Dead Air by Cliff Protzman (2018) - The owner of a Pittsburgh security company investigates the death of his boyhood friend. The answer will wind through the radio industry, city politics, and sex as he pursues justice for his friend. This book is like a beautiful stranger you see on the other side of the... Continue Reading →
Down To No Good - Earl Javorsky (2017) - Charlie Miner used to be a private detective. Then he died. Sort of. People keep killing him and he keeps waking up. Waking up dead. It's confusing. When Homicide Detective Dave Putnam asks for Charlie's help with three murders that are tangled up with a celebrity... Continue Reading →
The Edinburgh Twilight - The Ian Hamilton Mysteries #1 by Carole Lawrence (2017) - A killer stalks the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland as the 20th century approaches. Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton will stalk the killer in a deadly conflict. It will strike fear into the heart of the city and touch on the detective's darkest... Continue Reading →
And Then There Were None (1945) - Ten people are invited to a remote island by an unknown host. Each carries a secret crime in their past. Their mystery host kills them one by one as the dwindling remainder desperately tries to figure a way out. Directed by Rene Clair ... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 