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Dan Brown isn’t for me, but thanks for the other suggestions
You’re welcome Tank..I got fed up with Dan Brown after Angels and Demons and another rubbish screen adaptation he wasn’t a recommendation but Peter James’s books are very addictive and
the cases are gruesome.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Not into crime books but do love Sherlock Holmes films from the 1930s and 40s with Basil Rothborne and Nigel Bruce they are classics
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A lot of books that sell well are criminal, criminally bad that is – but each to their own.
That’s quite intriguing
in view of your youth.
Might I call you Tide rather
than Daz ?
I could not disagree and a fine choice.
I have a large collection
of Sherlock Holmes hardback books – all unread and savouring those rainy afternoons when I have the time.
I have a lot of tapes of Cushing and Brett
but haven’t watched them.
They are dead ducks !Only Daz call me mate but when I was a kid the Sherlock Holmes films come on at Christmas watch them.on BBC 2 and now watch them at YouTube
Well Daz I can remember Charlie Chaplin, but not so much Holmes at Xmas. Chaplin was rolled out regular as clockwork. It wasn’t Xmas without that little wiggle disappearing down that bendy road, and that stick in perfect timing.
Opium is a very strong drug.
Gamble
I remember Chaplin but not a fan myself I enjoy Laurel and Hardy black and white
Also if not seen Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rothborne they on YouTube. Dressed to kill my fave film
The best of the best of Crime fiction for me, is by far James ‘The Demon Dog’ Ellroy. I’d recommend starting with ‘Clandestine’, then moving on to the LA Quartet – ‘The Black Dahlia’, ‘The Big Nowhere’, ‘LA Confidential’, and finally ‘White Jazz’.
Not for the faint of heart, but absolutely superb.
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The Rathbone versions are shown quite regularly on the Talking Pictures channel. Entertaining, historical artefacts but IMO not a patch on the later Cushing & Brett versions
Laurel & Hardy are superb and used to be recycled almost continuously on the BBC, but have long since disappeared for whatever reason
Ditto Tom & Jerry, Deputy Dawg and Wacky Races
Shame
It is a pity Laurel and Hardy are not shown on television any more. Their films were often shown when I was growing up. I loved them then and love them even more now.
Children still like them. A few years ago, I had a trip to Ulverston and visited the Stan Laurel museum. There is a small cinema in there showing the films. A group of young lads were there and they were laughing themselves silly.
I thought it was wonderful that these films which are almost 100 years old still connect with a generation born so much later.
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