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Ladykillers, The
February 2, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
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IMDB rating: 6.20 Plot: A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman’s house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems. |
Actors: Hanks Tom,Wayans Marlon,Simmons J.K.,Ma Tzi,Hurst Ryan,Wallace George,McConnell John,Weaver Jason,Root Stephen,Jordan Walter K.,Bell George Anthony,Grunberg Greg,Comedy,Crime,Thriller,
The Lady Killers: Show and Tell (by Margaret Grace)
Carola Dunn’s Daisy Dalrymple series is set in England in the 1920s, published by St Martin’s Minotaur and Kensington. The 17th and latest is BLACK SHIP, and THE BLOODY TOWER is now out in paperback. MANNA FROM HADES (March ‘09, St Martin’s), the first in a new series of Cornish mysteries set in the 1960s, is her 50th book (including 32 Regencies). Rhys currently writes the Molly Murphy mysteries, set in 1902 New York City and featuring an Irish immigrant sleuth. She has just begun a new series about a minor British royal in the 1930s–lighter and funnier than her previous books and pitched as Bridget Jones meets Charade as told by Nancy Mitford.
Rhys’s books have been nominated for every major mystery award and she has won eight including Agatha, Anthony and MacAvity.
She is a transplanted Brit who now makes her home in sunny California and even sunnier Arizona. –Sharan Newman is the author of the award-winning Catherine Levendeur mystery series, set in medieval France. The latest of these is The Witch in the Well for which she received the Bruce Alexander award for best historical mystery. As a medieval historian and frequent traveler to France, she has also written the Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code., an illustrated companion book to the best-selling novel and The Real History Behind the Templars. A new mystery, The Shanghai Tunnel, set in 1868 Portland Oregon, will be out in March, 2008.— Ann Parker writes science by day and historical
mysteries at night. Her award-winning Silver Rush
mystery series, featuring saloon owner Inez Stannert,
is set in the 19th-century silver-mining boomtown of
Leadville, Colorado. Strangely enough, given her
obsession with Leadville’s history, she lives (and has
always