Recap: In Part 3, Emilia Gordon’s Israeli publisher begins to have a few doubts about her identity. Could any clever old lady with an old-fashioned British accent fake being the author of this international bestseller? One of them is enjoying this game of cat and mouse - and it could be Emilia herself.
Shlomo Pinsker had given himself one more day in Haifa to bring the business with Ms Gordon to some sort of conclusion. On his last evening there, he decided to immerse himself in 1930s films set in London. Fortunately, YouTube obliged with free access to everything vintage - comedy, drama, noir, or a tantalising combination of all three. Comfortably ensconced in a large bed, in a bedroom without the kind of sea view Emilia Gordon enjoyed in her care home apartment but with powerful air-conditioning, Pinsker made a large pot of strong coffee and placed it on a plastic tray with a selection of incredibly addictive Israeli salty snacks Bamba and Bisli (this is not a product placement, just a descriptively useful fact). There, he said to himself, may the cinematic gluttony begin.
He wasn’t quite sure what he expected to find in those black and white films. A sense of Emilia Gordon’s life in 1930s and 1940s London? Some authentic details only a person living in those days could really know?
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