Ellory was the winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010 for his novel, A Simple Act of Violence.
The film, which will be released next year and is being written and directed by Scott Frank, is based on a Matt Scudder crime novel by Lawrence Block.
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The methods they used to avoid detection were straight out of a crime novel - they wrote cryptic notes using numbers and letters and spoke in code on the phone.
Massively popular contemporary U.K. crime writers like Ian Rankin and Colin Dexter haven't replicated their huge success in the U.S. "There's a traditional structure to the English crime novel, " Mr. James says.
In scripted fare, the lineup includes two shows based on books: "The Nanny Diaries" and "The Mad Ones, " based on a crime novel about the Gallo brothers and the New York mob in the 1950s and 1960s.
Now, however, it's available here, and after a second reading for the purposes of writing this month's recommendations, I can assure any reader on the hunt for a powerful and complex crime novel with a social conscience that this is a book that shouldn't be missed.
As Josephine Tey so elegantly demonstrated in her 1951 crime novel "The Daughter of Time, " no modern court would convict Richard III of the murder of the princes in the Tower, whose possible skeletons discovered in 1674 under the staircase leading to the chapel ought now to be disinterred from Westminster Abbey and subjected to DNA tests and modern pathology examinations.
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After a recent study showing that facial recognition technology is at a point where it can identify strangers with reasonable accuracy if they have Facebook accounts, the novel amateur crime-fighting technique seemed momentous.
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Our Turkish friend Tom Jarvis and his new house-mate and partner-in-crime Mike Denbee have undertaken a novel fish-based diet to devastating effect while Alex Davies has been religiously counting calories and abstaining from little treats in order to get rid of his "love-handles".
"It's exciting but novel to be able to fight crime from your smartphone, " says Hinch.
Crime writer PD James is to publish a novel that puts murder at the heart of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
"The Glass Key" (1942), based on Dashiell Hammett's 1931 novel, was the second film made from this influential book, in which organized crime and big-city politics are cozy bedfellows.
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