The Blues Brothers. Poster of the 1980 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Blues Brothers
Miami Mitch, 1980
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John Landis, 1980

Blues vocalist and petty criminal Joliet Jake Blues is paroled on good behavior grounds from Joliet Correctional Center after serving three years of a five-year sentence, and is picked up by his blood brother Elwood in his Bluesmobile, a battered, decommissioned police car. The brothers visit the Roman Catholic orphanage where they were raised, and learn from Sister Mary the Penguin Stigmata and old friend Curtis that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected.


The Fly. Poster of the 1958 movie and cover of the 1957 book
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The Fly
George Langelaan, 1957
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Kurt Neumann, 1958

In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, scientist André Delambre is found dead with his head and arm crushed in a hydraulic press. Communicating with typed notes only, André tells Hélène that he tried to transport himself but that a fly was caught in the chamber with him, which resulted in the mixing of their atoms.


Glitz. Poster of the 1988 movie and cover of the 1985 book
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Glitz
Elmore Leonard, 1985
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Sandor Stern, 1988

Vincent Marra is a Miami cop on medical leave in Puerto Rico, where he’s being stalked by a sex offender he testified against. Vincent’s girlfriend leaves him for a job as a hostess in an Atlantic City casino, then turns up dead. In Puerto Rico, a cabbie is also found dead. It’s up to Vincent to travel to Atlantic City to see if there is a connection.