Alexandra Andrews’s psychological thriller,
Who is Maud Dixon?, tests the limits of fiction. Literally. The novel begins in media res: Florence Darrow wakes up in a hospital in Morocco and is told she has miraculously survived her car veering off the side of a cliff. Still more perplexing, the nurses and doctors call her Helen Wilcox, the author for whom she works as an assistant. Inspired by
The Talented Mr. Ripley and written during the craze surrounding the identity of bestselling author Elena Ferrante, Andrews’s novel melds a page-turning narrative and compelling female protagonists with a thoughtful consideration of the erasure and creation of identity.
PETER LORRE AND SYDNEY GREENSTREET: FILM NOIR’S GREATEST ODD COUPLE Crime Reads. A fun read for anyone as fond as I am of Greenstreet, Lorre, Eric Ambler, and Istanbul.
Disappointingly, Netflix has few of the Greenstreet/Lorre classics mentioned in the article (and as one wag said of my cable subscription, it consists only of the box – no classic movie channels for me). I just happened to see a Hitchcock TV episode that had Lorre circa ?62? a week or so ago and Lorre did not look good in it health wise. Still, the episode where he plays a man who engages in a wager with Steve McQueen for McQueen’s finger is a role that was perfect for Lorre.
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DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new novel Slough House by Mick Herron is the seventh installment in his series about a team of bungling British spies who ve been put out to pasture but keep getting involved in huge cases anyway. Our critic at large John Powers says the book confirms Herron s stature as the best spy novelist now working.
JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: There are scads of talented spy novelists, but the ones who matter capture something essential about their historical moment. Back in the 1930s and 40s, Eric Ambler nailed the sense of ordinary people being caught up in the machinations of great totalitarian powers. A few decades later, John le Carre caught the personal and moral ambiguities of what John F. Kennedy dubbed the long twilight struggle of the Cold War.