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The Ladykiller (DI Kate Burrows, #1)
The Ladykiller (DI Kate Burrows, #1)
Martina Cole | 1993 | Crime
10
8.6 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
I really enjoyed this, despite having pre-existing ideas about Cole's writing. The story is very gripping and Cole does not use as many over-repeated phrases as her other books, although there is still a fair bit of Cockney slang written into it. (Some of which, I was forced to google!)

The anatagonist, George Markham, is a truly chilling character. The protagonist, Kate Burrows is a tough cop who's façade is only let down by her truly pathetic infatuation with the local mafiosa, Patrick Kelly.

Overall, a good read and very unputdownable. Shame Cole doesn't write like this all the time!
  
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
1934 | Comedy, Musical, Romance
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Mark Sandrich was the superlative director of Fred Astaire musicals, strikingly more successful at this demanding (though charming) form than the better known George Stevens. It’s very funny, chock-a-block with great character actors, and with wonderful music (Cole Porter) and choreography (Astaire with Hermes Pan). There’s something about works at the beginning of a form or style of cinema, even if rough and lacking couth, that I find more lovable and compelling than that form perfected (which in this case would be the gorgeous Top Hat made by Sandrich the next year)."

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