In settings as diverse as a struggling advertising agency, a book store, and a large computer company, the protagonists in Kickback and Other Stories find duplicity, betrayal, and sudden violence. As so often in life, there are no heroes, and it's often hard to tell who is the greater villain. A four-time nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, and winner of the 2001 Ellery Queen Readers' Award, Sellers' stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock M...

Dr Deakin and Professor Quigley, working within a government laboratory near Cambridge, discovered that it was the aim of MI6 with the support of the CIA, to assassinate all leaders of ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram by means of their patient, Leonard Selby, code named “The Porcupine Man”. Following Selby's ingestion of poisonous substances in a suicide attempt, a deadly virus developed within Selby's bloodstream that finally manifested itself within a lesion on his right palm. When Dr Deaki...

Phill Jupitus looks back at the career of one of our most remarkable funny men, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In the course of a career which spanned five decades, Peter Sellers rose from aspiring television mimicry to international fame and fortune. He was one of our biggest stars, loved for his role as Inspector Clouseau in the 'Pink Panther' films and his appearances in 'The Goon Show'. Yet his formative years, in the world of travelling show people, almost put him off the theatre for ev...

Cerca de doze ou treze anos atrás, seu navio chegou e você pode nem ter percebido. Veja, foi nessa época que os computadores pessoais começaram a aparecer nas casas ao redor do mundo, e todos nós começamos a acessar a Internet. Na época, muitos de nós não percebemos, mas o campo de jogo estava totalmente nivelado e coisas que você nunca pensou que seriam possíveis tornaram-se possíveis. Sua nave chegou. Se você não percebeu que seu navio havia chegado naquela época, temos boas notícias. Vo...

About twelve or thirteen years ago, your ship came in, and you may not have even realized it. You see, that was about the time that personal computers started appearing in homes around the world, and we all started accessing the Internet. At the time, many of us didn’t realize it, but the playing field had just been totally leveled, and things that you never thought would be possible became possible. Your ship came in. If you didn’t realize that your ship had arrived back then, there is go...

This One’s Trouble offers a collection of some of the best hard-hitting crime stories from acclaimed writer Peter Sellers. Hailed as "one of the key figures in the Canadian mystery renaissance" in the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Peter Sellers' entertaining and offbeat crime fiction stories have appeared in every major mystery magazine including Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Hardboiled. In This One’s Trouble, readers will discover characters...

'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday TelegraphRoger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits.But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of increasingly bizarre behaviour involving psychotic...

La biografia definitiva di uno dei più grandi comici di sempre, nonché prima biografia mai pubblicata in Italia su questo incredibile artista. Universalmente noto per alcuni dei personaggi più iconici della storia del cinema, dall'ispettore Clouseau al dottor Stranamore, Peter Sellers viene qui raccontato attraverso le parole dei suoi amici e colleghi, fonti fino a oggi inesplorate e foto private inedite. La sua tragica figura viene raccontata anche attraverso molti film oggi persino dimen...

In more than 500 episodes of Parkinson between 1971 and 1982, Michael Parkinson interviewed some of the greatest show-business talents.In Parkinson's interview with The Goons, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe remember their "love/hate; let's get one over the BBC" relationship. Spike Milligan joins them from his sick bed in Australia, where he was suffering from the Lurgi.Slipping instantly from accent to accent, Yorkshire to Yiddish, Bluebottle to Bloodnok, Guinness to Gielg...

A biography of the beloved actor and comedian's tragic life and death.Throughout the world, people regard Peter Sellers purely as a comedic genius: surely, one of the greatest ever to have lived. But the astute observer will notice that he always appeared to be acting, even when being interviewed. So, who was Peter Sellers? Sellers once said, "I could never be myself you see. There is no 'Me'. I do not exist. There used to be me, but I had it surgically removed". C...

'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday TelegraphRoger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits.But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of increasingly bizarre behaviour involving psychotic...

Throughout the world, people regard Peter Sellers purely as a comedic genius: surely, one of the greatest ever to have lived. But, the astute observer will notice that he always appeared to be acting, even when being interviewed. So, who was Peter Sellers?Sellers once said, "I could never be myself you see. There is no 'Me'. I do not exist. There used to be me, but I had it surgically removed." Clearly, this was not intended to be taken literally. Instead, the inference is that som...