Blogs in January 1970

Dust Devils 1st January 1970

A rich white man is murdered in Cape Town, his coloured mistress is witness to the murder. She runs back to her husband and children but the murderer is on to their whereabouts and hounds them. A complex and...

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The Golden Scales 1st January 1970

Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of the Sudanese novelist Jamal Mahjoub, who, like many “literary” writers, is venturing into the detective genre. The setting is present-day Cairo, where in a broken-down houseboat on the Nile, former police inspector Makana...

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The Savannah Project 1st January 1970

“An intense, heart-pounding St. Patrick’s Day thriller!” An NTSB investigator is called to Savannah to investigate what appears to be a routine aircraft accident during the St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Ensuing suspicions of sabotage launch a deadly chain of...

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The Lone Man 1st January 1970

Two Basque gunmen on the run after a bomb attack find refuge in a hotel whose owner, Carlos, used to belong to their movement. With the World Cup in progress, the Polish football team is staying in the hotel....

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Killing Plato 1st January 1970

Welcome to Phuket. It s a paradise, for the rich, the beautiful and the heavily armed. When Jack Shepherd runs into international racketeer and fugitive Plato Karsarkis in a Phuket beach bar one night, little can he imagine the...

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