Cracking Crime on Foreign Soil 2013

2013 2013 2013 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CJLESslk6go/UjBnMSUhmyI/AAAAAAAAQRo/TFRHOm-ajhg/s1600/aaawatch5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="464" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CJLESslk6go/UjBnMSUhmyI/AAAAAAAAQRo/TFRHOm-ajhg/s640/aaawatch5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">What It Was, Was UK Football: <em>The Arsenal Stadium Mystery</em> (1939)</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mVBcz8CCPLc/UjBnOEJvfPI/AAAAAAAAQRw/eq0dFtMBsvs/s1600/aaawatch3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mVBcz8CCPLc/UjBnOEJvfPI/AAAAAAAAQRw/eq0dFtMBsvs/s400/aaawatch3.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">They refer to this English sport as "football," but it looks like soccer they're playing, a backdrop against which investigating eccentric Leslie Banks solves a playing field murder. Some of wit from Hitchcock thrillers bled into light whodunits other <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> firms were staging; this one might have led to a series for Banks given easier circumstance, but how could a Brit gumshoe function amidst war and nightly bomb raids? <em>Arsenal</em> in hindsight seems a last stand for genteel detecting among civilized suspects unconcerned over larger issues; interesting to think that most players on its field would be in uniform within months of shooting. The murder is wildly complicated; amidst thick accents and scientific detail, I frankly got lost, though humor came happily to the rescue. <em>The Arsenal Stadium Mystery</em> had to have been an elusive one until VCI unearthed it as part of an ongoing "Rank Collection" of DVD's, quality being fine and well worth purchase.</span></span><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CJLESslk6go/UjBnMSUhmyI/AAAAAAAAQRo/TFRHOm-ajhg/s1600/aaawatch5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="464" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CJLESslk6go/UjBnMSUhmyI/AAAAAAAAQRo/TFRHOm-ajhg/s640/aaawatch5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">What It Was, Was UK Football: <em>The Arsenal Stadium Mystery</em> (1939)</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mVBcz8CCPLc/UjBnOEJvfPI/AAAAAAAAQRw/eq0dFtMBsvs/s1600/aaawatch3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mVBcz8CCPLc/UjBnOEJvfPI/AAAAAAAAQRw/eq0dFtMBsvs/s400/aaawatch3.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">They refer to this English sport as "football," but it looks like soccer they're playing, a backdrop against which investigating eccentric Leslie Banks solves a playing field murder. Some of wit from Hitchcock thrillers bled into light whodunits other <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> firms were staging; this one might have led to a series for Banks given easier circumstance, but how could a Brit gumshoe function amidst war and nightly bomb raids? <em>Arsenal</em> in hindsight seems a last stand for genteel detecting among civilized suspects unconcerned over larger issues; interesting to think that most players on its field would be in uniform within months of shooting. The murder is wildly complicated; amidst thick accents and scientific detail, I frankly got lost, though humor came happily to the rescue. <em>The Arsenal Stadium Mystery</em> had to have been an elusive one until VCI unearthed it as part of an ongoing "Rank Collection" of DVD's, quality being fine and well worth purchase.</span></span><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>