Sergio is joined by blogger Aidan Brack, of Mysteries Ahoy, for an in-depth look at Akira Kurosawa's classic 1963 suspense thriller, High and Low. This seems like the perfect time to look back at the film with the release of Spike Lee's remake, Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington.
Adapted from King's Ransom - the tenth volume in Ed McBain's series of police procedurals featuring the cops of the 87th Precinct - Sergio and Aidan look at the original book, its 1962 American TV adaptation and Kurosawa's extraordinary film version.
Aidan Brack is a public librarian with a love of mystery fiction. He started his blog, Mysteries Ahoy! in late 2017 as a way to connect with other fans of mysteries and to catalogue his experiences with the genre. Since then, he has shared his thoughts on over 600 books, 100 film and television productions, as well as the occasional radio drama. His father is crime novelist, Graham Brack.
Aidan enjoys reading and writing about many different types of mystery fiction, including works in translation. He has a particular interest in inverted mysteries - stories in which the culprit's identity is known to the reader from near the start.
You can find his writing at www.mysteriesahoy.com
For more info on author Graham Brack, visit: https://grahambrackauthor.com/
To watch the 1962 TV version of King's Ransom, visit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5sTB0_UyEc
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