Sleuth (1972 film) was considered unsuccessful in comparison to the original. Sleuth (1972 film) Sleuth is a 1972 British-American mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. The screenplay by playwright Anthony Shaffer was based on his 1970 Tony Award-winning play. Both Olivier and Caine were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances. This was Mankiewicz's final film. Critics gave the film overwhelmingly positive reviews, and would later note similarities between it and Caine's 1982 film "Deathtrap". Andrew Wyke, a successful writer of crime fiction, who lives in a large country manor house filled with elaborate
The Name of the Rose The name of the central character, William of Baskerville, alludes both to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (compare "The Hound of the Baskervilles" – also, Adso's description of William in the beginning of the book resembles, almost word for word, Dr. Watson's description of Sherlock Holmes when he first makes his acquaintance in "A Study in Scarlet") and to William of Ockham (see the next section). The name of the narrator, his apprentice Adso of Melk is among other things a pun on Simplicio from Galileo Galilei's "Dialogue"; Adso deriving from "ad Simplicio" ("to Simplicio"). Adso's putative place of origin,