“Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.”

This is the first line of Ruth Rendell’s “A Judgement in Stone.”

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“No one falls so swiftly and so helplessly as the one who imagines himself invulnerable.”

John Banville, ‘Venetian Vespers’

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Who's solving the Louvre robbery?

Always interesting when someone states the obvious in such a clever, clear way.

@jancisrobinson.com @financialtimes.com

Film challenge

Choose 20 movies/films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One movie/film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

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Ross MacDonald, “The Goodbye Look”

Ross MacDonald, “The Underground Man”

Which was the most emblematic Alain Delon's movie? "Rocco i suoi fratelli"?
"Plein solei", as Ripley?
"Un amour de Swann", as Baron of Charlus?
Or it was "Il gattopardo"?
"Le samouraï" is maybe the most iconic.