Showing posts with label Alfred Hitchcock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alfred Hitchcock. Show all posts
Sunday, 3 August 2025

Railway Mysteries

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Oh the treasures one can find at the National Railway Museum in York ! When it comes to books in general and crime fiction specifically, th...
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Saturday, 18 January 2020

What is a MacGuffin?

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For people into movies and genre fiction in general, you may have heard of the term MacGuffin , which was coined by Alfred Hitchcock . It is...
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Thursday, 22 August 2019

How far is Winnipeg from Montreal?

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The answer is 1424 miles. At least according to Alfred Hitchcock 's The 39 Steps . Something we learn on the very first scene, set in a ...
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Wednesday, 24 July 2019

Seagulls are a portent of doom

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Recently, and even though we are far from the sea, I often heard the cries of flocks of seagulls. Even though I cannot see them, I can hear ...
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Saturday, 11 August 2018

What movie is this from?

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I blogged before about the Flying Bean Café at the Beaconsfield train station. I loved right away this small quirky place, and one aspe...
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Sunday, 27 May 2018

Psycho read

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I thought I hadn't done a reading suggestion for a while and today was a good time ti do it. So today's reading suggestion is: Psy...
Saturday, 12 May 2018

The grandfather of modern thrillers

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Today's reading suggestion: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan . Which I blogged about before , but that was before I had actually r...
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Wednesday, 21 February 2018

The 39 Steps

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You were wondering maybe what I bought with my five pounds voucher from the local bookshop. Or maybe you couldn't care less, but I will...
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Friday, 14 August 2015

Blackbirds in the tree

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I took this picture a few days ago, when I was walking home. It is of the beech tree (anyway I think it's a beech tree, I might be wro...
Thursday, 23 July 2015

Planning the holiday reads

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As I am planning my holidays to York , which are not for soon but still these needs to be prepared, I am also preparing my reading list for ...
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Monday, 29 June 2015

Creepy Geese

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I recently blogged about a menacing seagull . Tonight, it is going to be about creepy geese . As you know from my previous post in English...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2015

A menacing seagull

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I was having my lunch break walk this afternoon, a bit late as I usually do. At some point, I saw and especially heard a seagull , flying lo...
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Sunday, 1 March 2015

Que Sera, Sera

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This blog needs more music, so before I shut down for the night, I thought to upload a song here. As March has just started and so will a ne...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013

A bird in the house

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This is my countdown to Halloween post, which is completely anecdotal. A small event happened this morning and I did not even witness it. Ba...
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