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The 96-Year-Old Murder Mystery Film With an All-Dog Cast That Just Broke the Internet
I can’t tell you how many people have contacted me, in the past few days, asking if it’s true that, in the 1930s, there was a silent film about dogs solving a murder mystery. In this age of AI, it’s possible to generate a film and claim it’s old—and if people like to fake anything, it’s cute animal videos. News of the existence of this film went viral this week, and obviously people were thrilled, because it is a silent film about dogs solving a murder mystery. Based on this description, if you don’t want to watch that, I don’t know what’s wrong with you.
“Aqui viene el Leon.” Here comes the Lion. The words seemed to hang over the tiny Miami storefront. Oscar, Pepe’s boss, spoke to them almost nonchalantly. Because, on any other day, this would be normal. Perfunctory. But something felt off to Pepe Otero, and even at his young age – barely past fourteen – he could sense it. Pepe’s job was, ostensibly, working the counter at Internacional, a diner/restaurant on Bird Road in southwest Miami-Dade. The place was cramped and tiny.
When I wrote The Appeal on spec in 2018, it was my first novel and, with no deadline or editor waiting for the manuscript, I had a ball. It’s a lively story told in a modern epistolary style (that’s emails and text messages) about a colorful group of characters who belong to a small-town drama society. As they find themselves in the midst of a murder mystery, a trio of lawyers try to unpick a potential miscarriage of justice. As far as I was concerned it was a standalone story that ended for good on the final page.
5 Books That Make You Root for Con Artists, Grifters, and Tricksters
They’re clever, observant, and charming (at least when it suits whatever game they’re playing). Their ability to read people is so fine-tuned it almost feels like magic. There’s something so undeniably magnetic about the particular blend of skill and charisma that they bring to their craft that within just fifty years of the appearance of the original “confidence man” on the streets of mid-nineteenth-century New York, the term for these savvy swindlers had transformed to con artist, their chosen medium the ever-malleable minds of other people.
6 Great Thrillers About Mothers and Daughters and Sisters
My mother started lying to me when I was about ten. It all started at Thanksgiving. Mom would make two turkeys, because there were always a lot of family and friends. And in one turkey she’d put regular stuffing, but the other turkey would have disgusting hideous oyster stuffing. (That’s what us kids called it.) My sisters and I refused to eat the oyster stuffing, and mom would reassure us that there was plenty of plain, and not to worry. Which we did not do.