by NRB | 25 May 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
My interest in Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders was awakened when I saw Man in the Attic (1953), a film about the Ripper which starred Jack Palance. That was perfect casting in black and white – that craggy face, those staring eyes, that mirthless smile....
by NRB | 26 Jul 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Robert B Parker’s Spenser private eye novels had some influence on my Cliff Hardy series. Parker was a whiz with the one-liner. ‘Work for you?’ Spenser said to an unappealing would-be client, ‘I’d rather spend the rest of my life at a Barry Manilow concert.’ Len...