Billy Wilder

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When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is 'supposed' to be on a diet of bland, civil suits. But the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult: Vole's only alibi witness is his wife, the calm and coldly calculating Christine Vole.

Dynamite Entertainment serves up this reverent yet fresh, five-issue mini-series entitled, "The Trial of Sherlock Holmes," the latest comic book iteration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal fictional detective, .

Danielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre. Before long, Darrieux is the school's prize pupil, though she intends to abandon her life of crime should the right man come along. But Saturnin-Fabre has other ideas, and grooms Darrieux for her entree into High Society, the better to divest foreign ambassador Andre Luguet of his valuables…

James Mallahan Cain è noto soprattutto come autore di romanzi di genere poliziesco, noir, hard boiled, anche se lui rifiutava queste etichette. Alcuni dei suoi romanzi più famosi sono diventati film di grande successo. Si ricordano in particolare Il postino suona sempre due volte (1934), che ha avuto diverse riduzioni cinematografiche, tra cui Ossessione di Luchino Visconti; Mildred Pierce (1941), da cui Michael Curtiz trasse l’omonimo film che nell’edizione italiana prese il nome di Il romanzo di Mildred; Double Indemnity (La morte paga doppio, 1943), da cui Billy Wilder trasse il film che nell’edizione italiana si intitola La fiamma del peccato.

Dynamite Entertainment serves up a reverent, five-issue mini-series entitled, "The Trial of Sherlock Holmes," the latest comic book iteration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal fictional detective, .