Tipping My Fedora

Today I am joined by Luke Deckard, co-host of the Cinema Sleuths podcast (https://cinemasleuths.podbean.com/) and author of the new hardboiled private eye mystery, NO SAINTS ONLY KILLERS. We discuss his love of crime fiction, the origins of his novel, its setting in 1922 London and Edinburgh ... and just why there is a scene in which his hero has to operate on a defenceless teddy bear! Luke's homepage can be found at: www.lukedeckard.com/. The book is available on all formats wherever you get your fiction from, including of course Amazon. 

 

Sergio is joined by returning guest, Moira Redmond, she of the mighty Clothes in Books blog, to celebrate the classic 1944 Film Noir, LAURA, starring Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb and Dana Andrews. We also look at the original novel by Vera Caspary on which it was based, the TV remakes from 1955 and 1968, both co-starring George Sanders - and also explore the film's fashions, the contribution made by costume designer Bonnie Cashin ... and what Sergio refers to as 1980s "bunny rabbit" trousers.   

Paul Abbott, co-host of Hark! The 87th Precinct Podcast, joins me to provide an overview of the books in the police procedural series by Ed McBain, as well as some of their film and TV versions too.

https://hark87podcast.blogspot.com/

I reviewed and ranked every single one of the books in the series over at the Fedora blog: https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/ed-mcbain-87th-precinct/

 

It's 35 years since the original cinema release of Hudson Hawk, the delightfully eccentric caper action comedy. I'm mad about the movie and David Hughes has now written a great book about it, The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk. He dropped in at Fedora (from a great height but into a very comfy chair) to spill the beans. To order a copy of the book, or listen to David's Rogue Commentary podcast or read his illuminating essay on how to set up your own Blu-ray label in the UK, follow the links below:

• The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk - order directly from Plumeria
• Plumeria: https://plumeriapics.co.uk/
• Rogue Commentary Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rogue-commentary/id1532071693
• "So You Want to Start a Boutique Blu-ray Label?" by David Hughes: https://cinephiliabeyond.org/so-you-want-to-start-a-boutique-blu-ray-label/

As part of the celebrations for Fedora's 50th episode, special guest Nick Cardillo returns to conclude the exploration of his top 10 Sherlock Holmes movies. In part one we looked at The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), The Scarlet Claw (1944), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and A Study in Terror (1965). We now enter the 1970s and a brand new approach to canonical fidelity ...

To find out more about author and actor Nick Cardillo, please visit his homepage: www.nickcardillocreative.com/

To celebrate Fedora's 50th episode, our special guest is Nick Cardillo, author of several Sherlock Holmes pastiches in print and on audio. He joins me to pick his favourite movies featuring the most beloved, and most filmed, "consulting detective." This podcast became such an epic that we had to split it into two halves. In this first part, Nick and I discuss his choices covering films originally released between 1939 and 1965. 

NB I make an error in our discussion on the music score for A Study in Terror. I mispoke and credited it to John Cameron but it was in fact the debut movie score by John Scott. 

To find out more about Nick, please visit his homepage: www.nickcardillocreative.com/

I am joined by Brad Friedman to look at Hitchcock's classic romantic thriller, REAR WINDOW, which was based on a short story by Noir maestro, Cornell Woolrich. 

Brad blogs about Golden Age mystery books and movies at Ah Sweet Mystery: https://ahsweetmystery.com/

Spoiler alert: the plots for REAR WINDOW and VERTIGO, including their respective endings, are explored in detail.

Returning guests Matt and Luke, crime authors and hosts of the Cinema Sleuths podcast, visit Fedora to talk about their latest novels and give us a list of their 10 favourite Noir books. Authors up for discussion include Raymond Chandler, Philip Kerr, Sue Grafton and many more. We also slip in a quick look at Robert Altman's very eccentric private eye movie, The Long Goodbye (1973). For more info about Mattew's Everett Carr series, visit Level Best Books (www.levelbestbooks.us/authors/matthew-booth) and for details of Luke's forthcoming private eye novel, No Saints, Only Killers, visit: https://shorturl.at/wrs6e.

Luke and Matt's podcast, Cinema Sleuths, is available all over the Internet - https://cinemasleuths.podbean.com/