Johnny Lister ran out of road and got killed. In Latchford, where road is all there is. Five miles of road--a hot, straight strip with a dead tree at the westerly end of it. The wreckage of Lister's cycle was found a hundred yards from his body...Into the world of jazz and death-happy delinquents...
If you were to guess how a womanising, middle-aged brewer was murdered, you might say he was shot by a jealous husband or drowned in his own beer - not savaged by a horse. The strange death of Charles Berney, savaged and trampled to death by a horse on a windswept stretch of moorland, came as he ...
This book gave new meaning to the phrase "freely adapted." I knew it'd be different from the episode in the UK TV series, but really....Book version: Old man Peachment is killed for a cache of ancient and medieval coins hidden in his house.TV version: Old man Peachment is murdered because of his ...