- A man who lives alone in a flat gets a phone call and tells the caller that he's "just about to go out." He grabs an umbrella, gets outside, sees bight sun and heads back inside to change our of his sweater. He discovers holes in his trouser pockets, looks to mend them, spills some paint when he opens the sto…
- When a farmer, William Tey, is hacked to death with an ax in his barn, Scotland Yard assigns Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers to the case. Lynley is the 8th Earl of Asherton and is a graduate of Eton and Oxford; he is on the fast track in the police service. Havers has a working c…
- This is a story about a fantastic world, where magic and miracles are an integral part of a reality. Skilled wizards promote the development of their secret science, while ordinary people can only suspect its existence and the real place that it occupies in their life. The events that the film relates are unleashed by …
- Gray can make the English language jump through hoops like none other. He recounts a number of events, tied together by his writing of a manuscript (the "Monster" of the title), some sad, some uproariously funny, all in his characteristic, sarcastic manner. If you liked "Swimming to Cambodia" you wi…