They lurk in the shadows of Toronto and travel by rooftop, protecting the innocent citizens of Canada’s brightest city from the darkest threats villainy has to throw at them. They collect clues and analyze evidence to bring evildoers to the harsh light of justice, and along the way manage to make time for a sarcastic…
When asked to describe pornography, Justice Potter Stewart described his threshold test for obscenity in a famous speech, saying that he “knew it when he saw it.” That’s also a pretty good method of describing Noir. There’s a femme fatale and a fedora wearing detective except when there’s no femme fatale and fedora wearing detective….
When you think of Jewel Thieves, images of Cary Grant sporting a black turtle neck and leaping from building to building while the French police follow in futility come to mind. Or maybe that’s just me. At any rate, few things in the criminal world bring the WOW factor as the international jewel thief! The…
Summer is a great time to consider hitting the beaches and escaping from everyday life. From the office to the boardroom, sometimes you just have to get away from it all, and some of us are better at it than others. Below are ten of the most spectacular prison breaks in modern history, teaching us…
I don’t want to shock anyone, but there is drinking in this establishment. For noir fiction, booze is as much a staple to the gumshoe’s identity as cigarettes, femme fatales, or cynicism. Drinking doesn’t necessarily DEFINE the detective’s identity, but a tee totaling gum-shoe is a rarity indeed in the dark worlds of hard-boiled,…
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