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The Fifth Woman

The Fifth Woman (original: Den femte kvinnan; 1996) is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the sixth in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.


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Agnete Friis

The book was short-listed for the Scandinavian Glass Key Award, competing against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and received the 2008 Harald Mogensen award for best crime novel.

André Gillois

In 1954, Gillois created one of the first French TV gameshows, Télé Match, with Jacques Antoine and Pierre Bellemare, and in 1958 a jury (including Georges Simenon) awarded him the prix du Quai des Orfèvres for his crime novel 125, rue Montmartre.

Annette O'Toole

However, in 1995, she starred in a made for TV film on the Lifetime television network based on the true crime novel "Dead by Sunset" which was written by Ann Rule.

Baskerville Holmes

His unique name was given to him by his mother who was inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Bortreist på ubestemt tid

Bortreist på ubestemt tid is a crime novel published in 1972 by the Norwegian writer Sigrun Krokvik.

Buddy Giovinazzo

Acclaimed action-filmmaker Tony Scott has expressed interest in developing Giovinazzo's crime novel, Potsdamer Platz into a motion picture.

Carlo Fruttero

A che punto è la notte (1979; crime novel; lit., "What of the night", as in the Bible book of Isaiah, 22:11)

F 21 Luleå

F21 figures in the crime novel The Red Wolf by Liza Marklund.

Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire

The village also plays a large role in the crime novel Nineteen Seventy Four, in which it is introduced in a list of "hard towns for hard men" and then later referred to as "a dirty brown mining town" and "where the night comes early and nowt nothing feels right, where the kids kill cats and the men kill kids".

Gert Nygårdshaug

The eco crime novel Mengele Zoo (1989) was in 2007 voted "the People's Favourite" during the literature festival of Lillehammer.

Hatyapuri

Hatyapuri 1979) a crime novel by Satyajit Ray gets its title from a location (Puri) on the shores of the Bay of Bengal which is a popular tourist attraction in East India.

Ken Olin

The film was based on the best selling true crime novel, Dead by Sunset which was written by true crime author Ann Rule.

Laura McGloughlin

Translations include Lluisa Cunillé's play The Sale (Parthian, 2008), Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal (Peirene, 2010), Toni Hill Gumbao's crime novel The Summer of Dead Toys, and The Island of Final Truth by Flavia Company.

Michael Robotham

Crime Writers' Association (UK), The CWA Gold Dagger, Best Crime Novel, 2013: shortlisted for Say You're Sorry

Subornation of perjury

The practice of ″horse shedding the witness″ (rehearsing testimony) is an example of such perjurious criminal conduct by an attorney, which is depicted in the true-crime novel Anatomy of a Murder (1958), by Robert Traver, and in the eponymous film (Otto Preminger, 1959), about a rape-and-murder case wherein are explored the ethical and legal problems inherent to the subornation of perjury.

Sveg

The Swedish author Henning Mankell was brought up in Sveg, and it is the setting for his crime novel Danslärarens återkomst (The Return of the Dancing Master).

The Wench is Dead

The Wench is Dead won the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year in 1989.

William Herbert Wallace

P.D. James's 1982 crime novel The Skull Beneath the Skin parallels the fictional murder of Lady Ralston with the real-life Wallace case.