Simenon attributed stealth and deliberation to his protagonist – one story is pointedly called The Patience of Maigret – and this has led most actors in the role towards physical minimalism.
Drawing a parallel to the psychological suspense of The Turn of the Screw, she praised the creation of the story's protagonist: One of the great successes of The Orphan Choir is the deftly constructed narrative.
TSMD is a retelling of Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, its protagonist one Gully Foyle, lumpenprole untermensch turned revenging angel in a world utterly transformed by the discovery that teleportation is a natural and teachable human talent.
More broadly, Rockstar visually blurred the execution animations the player can invoke when dispatching the evil guards and psychopaths standing between freedom and the game's protagonist, one Daniel Lamb.
Suzanne Joinson's A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar (Bloomsbury £12.99) consists of two parallel stories, each told from the point of view of a childless female protagonist, one at a shimmering, multi-ethnic Silk Road trading post, the other in contemporary London.
Our protagonist, one Theodore Twombly, ghostwrites love letters; his friend Amy makes video games; everyone has unfortunate fashion taste and lives in cozy Art Deco apartments.
