On this day in movie history - Killing Them Softly (2012)

Killing Them Softly

directed and written by Andrew Dominik,

based on the novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins,

was released in the United States on November 30, 2012.

Music by Marc Streitenfeld.

Cast:

Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Trevor Long, Max Casella, Sam Shepard, George Carroll, Linara Washington, Ross Brodar, Wade Allen, Christopher Berry, Kenneth Brown Jr., Mustafa Harris, Dared Wright, John McConnell, Bryan Billingsley, Shannon Brewer, Roger Pfeiffer, Joe Chrest.

On this day in music history – The album Beautiful Quiet, by Amy Lauren (2010)

 

Beautiful Quiet

by Amy Lauren

was released on November 30, 2010.

On this day in music history - The album Another Place and Time, by Heidi Breyer (2010)

Another Place and Time

by Heidi Breyer

was released on November 30, 2010.

On this day in music history - The album Heavy as a Feather, by Kathryn Kaye (2011)

Heavy as a Feather

by Kathryn Kaye

was released on November 30, 2011.

Born on this day – John Dickson Carr:

John Dickson Carr

Writer

November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977

Credits:

Books:

A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Very Murderous Christmas (2018); Below Suspicion (1949); Bodies from the Library 3 (2020); Bodies from the Library 5 (2022); Captain Cut-Throat (1955); Castle Skull (1931); Christmas Crimes (1996); Crime on the Coast / No Flowers by Request (1987); Crimes of Cymru (2023); Daring Detectives (1969); Dark of the Moon (1967); Deadly Arts (1985); Deadly Hall (1971); Dear Dead Days (1972); Death-Watch (1935); Dying of Fright (1976); English Country House Murders (1988); Fifty Best Mysteries (2004); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1938); Fire, Burn! (1957); Ghosts and Scholars (1987); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries (2022); Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Hag's Nook (1932); Handle with Care (1985); He Who Whispers (1946); In Spite of Thunder (1960); It Walks By Night (1930); Manhattan Mysteries (1987); Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural (1985); Metropolitan Mysteries (2024); More Exploits Of Sherlock Holmes (1954); Most Secret (1964); Murder by the Seaside (2022); Murder In Midsummer (2019); Murder On Christmas Eve (2017); Murder Takes a Holiday (2020); Murderous Schemes (1996); Nine Detective Stories (1964); Panic in Box C (1966); Papa La-Bas (1968); Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956); Poison in Jest (1932); Realms of Darkness (1985); Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll (1948); The Arabian Nights Murder (1936); The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1982); The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014); The Blind Barber (1934); The Bride of Newgate (1950); The Burning Court (1937); The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941); The Corpse in the Waxworks / aka The Waxworks Murder (1932); The Crooked Hinge (1938); The Dead Man's Knock (1958); The Demoniacs (1962); The Devil in Velvet (1951); The Eight of Swords (1934); The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942); The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954); The Four False Weapons (1937); The Ghosts' High Noon (1969); The Hollow Man / aka The Three Coffins (1935); The House at Satan's Elbow (1965); The Hungry Goblin (1972); The Island of Coffins (2021); The John Dickson Carr Omnibus (2000); The Kindling Spark (2022); The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1949); The Locked Room Reader (1968); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Lost Gallows (1931); The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933); The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (1993); The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940); The Men Who Explained Miracles (1964); The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey (1936); The Nine Wrong Answers (1952); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939); The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939); The Scandal at High Chimneys (1959); The Seat of the Scornful / aka Death Turns the Tables (1942); The Sleeping Sphinx (1947); The Twelve Crimes of Christmas (1981); The Witch of Low Tide (1961); Third Bullet and Other Stories (1954); 13 to the Gallows (2008); Till Death Do Us Part (1944); Till Death Do Us Part / Intrigue for Empire / Give 'Em the Axe (1944); To Wake the Dead (1938); Vintage Crime (2020); Who Killed Father Christmas? (2023).

Movies and television:

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1956); City After Midnight (1957); Climax! (1958); Colonel March Investigates (1953); Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956); Danger (1951); Dangerous Crossing (1953); Detective (1964–1969); Devcátko s petrklíci (1967); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Encounter (1956); Guilty Party (1957); La dama dei veleni (1979); L'occhio di Giuda (1982); Los suicidios constantes (1961); Mado no naka no satsujin (1983); Morte a passo di valzer (1979); Retro Static Radio / Podcast Series (2020); Storyboard (1961); Studio One (1952); Suspense (1949–1953); The Burning Court (1962); The Man in Black (1950); The Man with a Cloak (1951); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960); The Unforeseen (1959); Tre colpi di fucile (1982); Treacherous Crossing (1992).

Jhumpa Lahiri, on fiction:

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

Recommended reading – An Introduction to the Detective Story

 

An Introduction to the Detective Story

by Leroy Lad Panek.
 
Published by Popular Press 1.
First edition.
Published 1987.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0879723777
ISBN-13: 978-0879723774
 
Description:
 

This book is a no-apologies introduction to Detective Fiction. It's written in an aggressive, modern English well-suited to a genre which has traditionally broken ground in terms of aggressive writing, contemporary scenarios, and tough dialogue.