Recommended reading - The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006):

The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries

Edited by Mike Ashley.

Published by Running Press.

Published 2006.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0786718935

ISBN-13: 978-0786718931

Description:

Mystery conundrums from crime's finest storytellers.

This ingenious new anthology from Mike Ashley presents nearly 30 impossible mysteries and bizarre crimes guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue. Among them are some crimes so impossible that they’re near perfect, and others so perfect that they’re impossible to solve.

In all, the delight is in unravelling the puzzle and trying to work out what on earth happened.

Cases include:

A man in an all-glass phone booth, clearly visible and with no one near him, is killed by an ice pick.

Someone sitting alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only once and that was over 200 years ago.

A man enters a cable-car carriage alone and is visible the entire journey but is found dead when he reaches the bottom.

A man vanishes at the top of the Indian rope trick and is found dead miles away.

A dead man continues to receive mail in response to letters apparently written by him after he'd died.

The stories include several brand new masterpieces as well as lesser known rare gems – from such names as Robert Randisi, Edward D. Hoch, Joseph Commings, Peter Tremayne, Bill Pronzini and Gillian Linscott.

Ann Patchett, on books:

That's important to me, to recommend books.

- Ann Patchett.

On this day in music history - Queen Of Baroque by Cecilia Bartoli (2020):

Queen Of Baroque

Album by Cecilia Bartoli,

was released on August 14, 2020.

Track list:

And The honor Tyrant Star; How much I envy... those who live as lovers; Let me weep; I am like a ship; Stabat Mater Dolorosa (Feat. June Anderson); Agitated by two Twenty; Serene, O my beautiful sun... My Flame... (Feat. Philippe Jaroussky); Warm Blood; Shadow never was; Aure vai e baciate (feat. sol gabetta); Oh, you beautiful God of love... Where is my good?; Eja Mater, Fons Amoris... Fac, Ut Ardeat... Sancta Mater... Tui Nati, Vulnerati (Feat. Franco Fagioli and Behle); Go repentant to cry; Unlock yourselves, O gates of Avernus; I leave you, dear; Combatton Quest'alma (Feat. Philippe Jaroussky); Nice pleasure.

On this day in movie history - District 9 (2009):

District 9

directed by Neill Blomkamp,

written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell,

based on the short film Alive in Joburg (2006) by Neill Blomkamp,

was released in the United States on August 14, 2009.
Music by Clinton Shorter.

Cast:

Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, Eugene Wanangwa Khumbanyiwa, Louis Minnaar, Kenneth Nkosi, William Allen Young, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike, John Sumner, Nick Blake, Jed Brophy, Vittorio Leonardi, Johan van Schoor, Marian Hooman, Jonathan Taylor, Stella Steenkamp, Tim Gordon, Nick Boraine, Robert Hobbs, Trevor Coppola, Morne Erasmus, .

On this day in movie history - Bonnie and Clyde (1967):

Bonnie and Clyde

directed by Arthur Penn,

written by David Newman and Robert Benton,

was released in the United States on August 14, 1967.
Based on the true 1934 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow case.
Music by Charles Strouse.

Cast:

Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Evans Evans, Gene Wilder, Mabel Cavitt.

On this day in movie history - I, the Jury (1953):

I, the Jury

directed and written by Harry Essex,

based on the novel by Mickey Spillane,

was released in the United States on August 14, 1953.
Music by Franz Waxman.

Cast:

Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Mary Anderson, Tom Powers, Frances Osborne, Bob Cunningham, Tani Guthrie, Dran Hamilton, Joe Besser, Paul Dubov, John Qualen, Nestor Paiva, Robert Swanger, Juan Duval, Wally Rose, Bud Stark, Elisha Cook Jr., Roy Engel, Gil Frye, Jim Hayward, Colin Kenny, Ottola Nesmith, Gil Perkins, Frank Richards, Suzanne Ridgway, Lester Sharpe, Jack Stang, Charles Sullivan, William Tannen, Carol Thurston, Sailor Vincent.

Born on this day – Felice Farina:

Felice Farina

Director

Writer

August 14, 1954 – September 18, 2023

Credits:

Suffering specials (1989); Behind the Mountains (2023); Bidoni (1995); Castro (2016); Who c'è c'è (1987); Condominium (1991); Atomic Conversations (2018); What about me SAI (2009); Do You See Me? (2014); Felipe Has Blue Eyes 2 (1993); The Bozano case (1996); Liczba doskonala (2022); Monicelli: Mario's version (2012); Fog in the Po Valley (2000); Nostos: The Return (1989); Oscar for two (1998); Patria (2014); He seems dead... but he only fainted (1986); Without brakes (2003); Marry (1988); Petrol station (1989); Strade d'acqua (2009); The Evening Tree (2024); The Physics of Water (2009); Timekeeper (2022); Last Breath (1992); See Naples and then die (2007).