In the book 'Call For The Dead', who is described as a 'short, fat man with a quiet disposition'?
Call for the Dead and promotion and instead flies to Zurich to see his estranged wife, Ann. "Call for the Dead" was filmed as "The Deadly Affair" (1966). It was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn, and starred James Mason as Charles Dobbs, (not George Smiley, as le Carré had sold the rights to use the name "George Smiley" with the rights to "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"), Harry Andrews as Mendel, Simone Signoret as Elsa Fennan and Maximilian Schell as Dieter Frey. The major change in the script from the book is the addition of an
The Dead Man (short story) anything more than a soon-to-be dead man. The Dead Man (short story) "The Dead Man" (original Spanish title: "El Muerto") is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was first published in the magazine "Sur" (#145) in November 1946. The story deals with the life of a young "compadrito" from Buenos Aires, Benjamín Otálora, who has killed a man and must leave the country. He heads for Uruguay with a letter of introduction for Azevedo Bandeira, a local caudillo. While searching for this Bandeira, he participates in a knife fight and blocks a lethal blow intended for