mysteries
“Forget It, Morse; It’s Oxfordshire.”−’Endeavour’: Series Two, on PBS

Two years ago I quite favorably reviewed the pilot film for Endeavour, the 1960s-set pre...

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Death Decoded: ‘The Bletchley Circle’ on PBS

I recently complained about the unlikely revisionist feminist rewrite in the new film ...

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‘Person of Interest’: Intelligent, Compelling, Badass

I don't watch too much series television, but Person of Interest (Thursdays, 9 p.m. EDT) i...

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The Sheer Joy of Genre Reading: Dirda’s ‘On Conan Doyle, or, The Whole Art of Storytelling’

The great majority of fictional detectives come, strut for a time upon the bloody stage ...

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A Classic Christmas Mystery: ‘Mystery in White’

"It snowed all day and all night.  On the 22nd it was still snowing.  Snowballs flew, ...

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Good Cop, Bad Cop: Crime Tales of Two Eras

Freeman Wills Crofts and Inspector French, Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus In his Rough ...