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Lock up your daughters
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/12/2016
» Of all crimes, those against children are the most heinous. While they may not all be innocent, they are weak and vulnerable, expected to be protected from the dangers of the world and shown the right path by their parents and respected members of their community.
The cook did it
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/10/2015
» Men perform more major crimes than women, but women are catching up. Calling females the weaker sex is an outmoded term. In novels and films, the butler didn't do it, but the cook did. Motives are much the same: lust, greed revenge, ambition or self-defence.
Barbed humour
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/10/2018
» It was as a soldier boy in President Truman's "Police Action" that I first visited Asia -- South Korea and Japan.
Serial Killer
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/12/2015
» If crime novelists are to be believed, the world is filled with serial killers -- five victims qualifying them for the role. Tyrants Hitler and Stalin, with tens of millions victims to their discredit, are overqualified. They were butchers. No accepted term in-between.
Don’t believe confessions
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/05/2014
» Novels about prison are of a kind. An inmate is scheduled to be executed and someone, usually a newspaper reporter, has reason to believe that he’s innocent. Can he bring the evidence to the governor before the electric chair, gallows, gas chamber or needle snuffs out his life? It’s a race against time.
Endless struggle
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 19/08/2013
» Of all the conflicts of human history, that between the haves and have-nots is the most enduring. The owners determined to keep the profit, the workers demanding a better wage. Both feel in the right. When negotiations are fruitless, each resort to force. Strikes. Strike-breakers. Broken heads. Broken bodies.
Human trafficking
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/03/2013
» Slavery is as old as mankind. The slaves were made to work by the rich and powerful, their owners and overseers, at physical labours that sapped their strength and deprived them of their dignity. Often chained, always beaten to keep them in line. Tilling fields, building pyramids, or rowing ships, they died in place.
The Black Prince
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/01/2013
» Titling a novel with the year in which it is set presumes that the reader is aware of the historical event _ 476, the fall of the Roman Empire; 1215, Magna Carta; 1588, the defeat of the Spanish Armada; 1775, the American Revolution; 1789, the French Revolution; 1814, Waterloo; 1939, Hitler's invasion of Poland; 1941, Pearl Harbour. But 1356... with how many people does it ring a bell ?
An army sleuth
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 05/11/2012
» Homer to Hemingway, Chaucer to Cromwell, Boccaccio to Baldacci, not only good stories but the way they are told make the best authors. Not to mention interesting characters, plots you can see yourself parts of, twists and turns.
A delightful sequel
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/10/2012
» Sequels are commonplace, but not necessarily by the same authors. They are penned shortly after the original becomes popular, or long afterwards. Alexander Dumas waited two decades before his follow-up to The Three Musketeers. More than one writer had been tapped to pick up where Alistair Maclean and Ian Fleming left off.