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Battles/wars. World War II. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/ vɪˈdɑːl / vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. [1] His novels and essays interrogated the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life.
When Thieves Fall Out: Directed by Seymour Robbie. With Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley, John Glover, Michael Lembeck. When a prisoner is released from jail after serving 20 years, he returns to Cabot Cove to prove he was wrongly convicted.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Seymour Robbie
- 1987-09-27
Sep 2, 2014 · He wrote a romance novel under the name Katherine Everard that remains a rarity. And as Cameron Kay — a name he borrowed from a great uncle — he wrote “Thieves Fall Out,” a crime thriller set in Egypt during the 1952 revolution there.
Thieves Fall Out is a pulp thriller Gore Vidal wrote under a pseudonym in 1952, and is reprinted now for the first time, and for the first time under his own name. Apparently, Vidal took a look at his writing and didn’t like it much, and so turned down a request to publish; it was his estate that gave permission to Hard Case to go ahead.
Full of well-written imagery, interesting characters, and details of Egypt in the day (Vidal spent time in Egypt in the late 1940s and so he offers some good first-hand perspective), Thieves Fall Out is an engaging and intriguing novel that most authors would be happy to have in their catalog of works.
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Thieves Fall Out is a hell of a lot of fun. About the author Ed Sikov is the author of 7 books about films and filmmakers, including On Sunset Boulevard:; The Life and Times of Billy Wilder; Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers; and Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis .
Apr 10, 2015 · Whilst no-one, save perhaps Norman Mailer, would dispute Gore Vidal’s importance as an essayist and commentator, his ferocious intellect is no guarantee he was a good storyteller in the crime genre. Yet some of his earliest work was in this area and Thieves Fall Out was first published over 60 years ago.
