Knicked knickers
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE RAIDED the home of a man in Tokyo, Japan, after he was caught stealing women’s underwear from two homes in February. Officers were astounded when
Brush choke
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN in Hong Kong slipped over and managed to swallow her toothbrush last week. She still managed to call for an ambulance while the object
Struck gold
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A LARGE block of gold bullion, valued at 1.27 million euros, was stolen from a museum in Japan by three masked thieves. The bar weighed around
Slippery crime
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com THIEVES MADE off with more than 50 reptiles from an animal education centre in Australia at the weekend, which had been established to continue the work
High fright
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A PASSENGER on a British Airways flight from Delhi to London was horrified when he woke up to find a dead woman sitting near him. The
Losing You
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Losing You By Nicci French The latest Nicci French book is always worth looking out for and Losing You is no exception. Nina Landry is
Gentlemen prefer blondes
By: Skip Bandele skip.bandele@portugalresident.com DO GENTLEMEN really prefer blondes? Let us have a look at that old cliché and the issue of age gaps – and I am not talking
The Castle in the Forest
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com The Castle in the Forest By Norman Mailer No career in modern American writing is at once so brilliant, varied and controversial as that of
Split 50-50
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com IN A bitter divorce case, a 43-year-old German man literally split his house in two, using a chainsaw. He measured out his single-storey summer house and,
Saturnalia
Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop griffin.bookshop@portugalresident.com Saturnalia By Lindsey Davis By contrast, the new Falco mystery is set against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule. During this Roman holiday,