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View Poll Results: Which Award-Winning selection will win the April runoff? | |||
A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow | 7 | 53.85% | |
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler | 6 | 46.15% | |
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04-09-2017, 07:08 PM | #31 |
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The Ambler novel is not a mystery; it is a caper novel. What makes it interesting for me is how Ambler inverted it with his main character. I have not seen the movie yet - it came out in the early 60s
Ambler was a screenwriter as much as he was a novelist. It would be interesting to see how the screen treatment of Arthur Simpson varied from the Ambler novel - Ambler did not write the screenplay. I wonder how Peter Ustinov played Simpson. |
04-16-2017, 11:26 AM | #32 |
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I finished The Light of the Day yesterday. I rather enjoyed it. I know for sure is that the wrong book won. This would have made for a much better discussion.
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