And what sort of murders took place?
This is a sort of murder-comedy, with, if you listen carefully, a muffled heartbeat at the center.
The effect was not to disarm criminals but to take guns away from ordinary people who kill on impulse, the commonest sort of murder.
Mr. Lanchester is the author of the wickedly entertaining "Debt to Pleasure," which was a sort of murder confession in the form of a literate cookbook.
Director Blanche McIntyre choreographs a riot of illusion and self-delusion, a sort of murder mystery where the victim is alive and well.
No one is left out, and in time "The Exception" becomes a sort of murder mystery about office politics — or an exploration of office politics that ultimately includes murder.
In the late seventies, Miami, like other American cities, had a steady increase in the sort of murders that occur when, say, an armed man panics while he is robbing a convenience store.
Whether or not the prospect of lethal injection deters ordinary murder a questionable proposition at best it is perverse to imagine that it can deter the sort of murder of which faith-based ritual suicide is an integral part.
By the second hour in their company, your gaze may be drifting (languidly) toward your watch, even though the subject is the sort of murders that tabloids drool over.
Georges Franju's "Eyes Without a Face" (1960), is usually considered a horror picture because it concerns a demented scientist and its atmosphere is suavely Gothic, but nothing supernatural happens in it, just a particularly outré sort of murder.
But as someone who frequently has to rebut the notion that the District Of Columbia is some sort of murder capital, I'm pretty familiar with these trends.
