Blogs in January 1970

The Pale Blue Eye 1st January 1970

West Point on the Hudson. A retired New York policeman is called to West Point Military Academy in 1831 to solve a gruesome murder and he seeks the help of cadet, Edgar Allan Poe, to help solve the case.

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The Serbian Dane 1st January 1970

Iranian Mullahs have offered a $4 million reward to the person who carries out their fatwa, the death sentence of the internationally acclaimed author Sara Santanda. A Danish daily newspaper has in cooperation with Danish PEN Centre invited her...

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Out 1st January 1970

Four women work nights together at a bento box factory on the outskirts of Tokyo, and form a friendship based on their mutual desperation at the quality of their home lives. Yamamoto, a young wife and mother kills her...

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Death and the Dolce Vita 1st January 1970

On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach at Torvaianica, forty kilometres from the Italian capital. Some said...

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The Snowman 1st January 1970

A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother’s favourite scarf – wrapped around the neck of a snowman. As Harry Hole and his team begin...

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