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Easy PreyIn life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that’s demanding action from Lucas Davenpor
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Running ScaredPreviously published as Wishes No Matter How Fast You Run. . .The newborn baby boy is beautiful,
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Once Were CopsMichael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife ed
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Taming a Sea-HorseSpenser's interest in teenage prostitute April Kyle leads him to Robert Rambeaux, ersatz Juilliard student and April's pimp, and t
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Rough Weather (Spenser Mystery)A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible— the infamous Gray Man, who has both he
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Bertie And the Crime of Passion (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) (Prince of Wales)Bertie (the future King Edward VII) has a princely appetite for tasty morsels of all kinds. With glorious food and glamorous women
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Do Not Exceed the Stated DoseBe cautious; reading too many of Peter Lovesey's stories at once could have unexpected results. "Passion Killers" will make your t
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Mystery Movies
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Mulholland Dr.This sexy thriller has been acclaimed as one of the year's best films. Two beautiful women are caught up in a lethally twisted mys
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OrphanOrphan (DVD)Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga star as a couple who adopt a 9-year-old girl after losing their ow
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Mel Gibson's ApocalyptoFrom Mel Gibson, director of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and the Academy Award(R)-winning BRAVEHEART (Best Director, Best Picture, 1
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Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)Academy Award(R) winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991) gives an outstanding performance in the heart-
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CubeSix ordinary strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves in a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambe
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game
Author: Gavin Lyall
Bill Cary is a bush pilot living in Lapland in northern Finland, making a precarious living flying aerial survey flights looking for nickel deposits, and occasional charter cargo flights of dubious legitimacy in his beat-up old de Havilland Beaver. Towards the end of the flying season, a wealthy American hunter hires him to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border in order to hunt bear. Subsequently, he is assaulted by thugs when he refuses a charter contract to search for a lost Tsarist treasure, comes under suspicion from the Finnish police for smuggling when Tsarist-era gold sovereigns start turning up, and from the Finnish secret police for espionage. However, things get more serious when the wealthy American's hunter's beautiful sister turns up to search for her brother, and his fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Cary suspects that the events he is increasingly involved in may stem from an incident in his wartime past. The Most Dangerous Game was a runner-up for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award in 1964.
Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) lived in Hampstead and enjoyed sailing on the Thames in his motor cruiser. From 1959 to 1962 he was a newspaper reporter and the aviation correspondent for the Sunday Times. His first novel, The Wrong Side of the Sky, was published in 1961, drawing from his personal experiences in the Libyan Desert and in Greece. Lyall left journalism in 1963 to become a full-time author, writing 17 novels before his death in 2003.
