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Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Martin Cruz Smith obituary: author of acclaimed thriller Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith was producing 20 pages of pulp fiction a day in 1971 when he sold a publisher an idea for a quick 'buddy' thriller that would feature an American cop swooping in to help a Russian detective solve a murder case in Moscow. His research consisted of a two-week package holiday to the Soviet Union, organised by Intourist but with no guide. It was largely a matter of walking the streets and exploring the bars and markets, he recalled, looking at the expressions on faces and listening to a language he didn't know. But he felt that he understood the place as a writer in a way that he had never understood anything before. When he got back home and began writing, the figure of Arkady Renko, a depressive Moscow policeman wholly disillusioned but driven by a private sense of duty, began to dominate his imagination: he resolved to change the book's focus and ditch the American protagonist. 'I knew I was on to something pretty good,' he remembered. 'But when I showed my publishers, they asked where was the American hero?'
Fox News
6 days ago
- Fox News
Q & Trey: What We Know Vs. What We can Prove
As a former prosecutor Trey has an extensive background in dissecting and working on heinous cases. With that expertise, he answers questions on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation and Bryan Kohberger's guilty plea in the Idaho murders case. Plus, Trey gives listeners a peak into the world of his debut novel The Color of Death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
South China Morning Post
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Why Zhang Ziyi waited years to play a husband killer in She's Got No Name
Patience is a virtue, they say. Although Peter Chan Ho-sun's film She's Got No Name recently debuted in cinemas, it has been nine years since the veteran Hong Kong director first approached Zhang Ziyi to star in it. 'She said 'yes' almost on the spot,' he says. 'With no script, with nothing.' The Chinese actress, who is known for her roles in award-winning films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs of a Geisha, has been scaling back her work of late and spending more time with her family. But this role was different. 'I've always had the passion for movies, but I didn't really see any perfect script until Peter approached me with this,' Zhang says. Play With the film based on a famous unsolved murder case in 1945 Shanghai, Zhang's role is unlike any other. She plays a downtrodden, illiterate working-class woman known only as Zhan-Zhou. The story begins with her being arrested for killing her abusive husband and dismembering his body.
