commerce
Another Try at Genre-Bending

The mixing of genres can be interesting when it works, but when it doesn't, it's usually a...

books
Rowling Along on Mystery Novel

J. K. Rowling, author of the mega-bestselling Harry Potter books, is writing a detective n...

manners-and-morals
Free Will, Determinism, and Pop Culture

The central moral issue of the past century was whether a traditional (in fact, millennias...

mysteries
Spike TV’s Show “Murder” and the Need to Police the Police

Another interesting summer TV program on cable is the elegantly named series Murder, which...

commerce
Monk Stumbles Out of Gate

As I mentioned in my post last week on the season premieres of USA Network mainstays Monk ...

mysteries
Monk and Psych Return

 Tonight brings the season premieres of the mystery-comedy shows Monk and Psych on US...

mysteries
A Series of Appealing Mysteries

The BBC TV program Mayo, now showing on BBC America as The Gil Mayo Mysteries, is an exemn...

books
The 1930s Nancy Drew Films

Our friend Mike Tooney called our attention to the following passage in William K. Everson...

manners-and-morals
Maiden of Mysteries

Nancy Drew, the new theatrical film based on the classic girls' book series (the first the...

mysteries
About That “Sopranos” Ending . . .

Sometimes ignorance helps. Not being a regular viewer of The Sopranos, upon viewing the en...

books
The Dead Sleep Lightly—Review

My fellow Golden Age of Detective Mysteries afficionado Mike Tooney has written an excelle...

commerce
What TV Networks Owe Loyal Viewers

Do producers and TV networks have an obligation to their viewers?Producers and networks ar...

manners-and-morals
Rudy G. Offers Half an Abortion Loaf . . . Will It Be Enough?

In contrast to the other worthies at last night's Simi Valley, California, debate among ca...

mysteries
The Value of Plot; plus: Guest Review of “Night of the Wolf”

A few weeks ago I eagerly purchased a copy of the new book Night of the Wolf, a collection...

mysteries
The Case of the Ectoplasmic Ecdysiast

A regular visitor to this site, who goes by the mysterious name of Mike (not Linda), wrote...

mysteries
An Intellectual Intuitive TV Detective

NBC-TV premiered an interesting and innovative new detective series last night. Jeff Goldb...

manners-and-morals
Was Ellery Another Kind of Queen?

Short answer: no.A comment placed on my Tony Dungy item, below, suggests a worthy item for...

mysteries
Banacek on DVD

Your voice has been heard! A couple of months ago we asked your support in getting the gre...

mysteries
More on Lord Darcy

Matthew Bowman of Christendom College posted a very interesting comment on my article on R...

mysteries
“Monk” and “Psych”

The USA Network mystery-comedy series Monk and Psych are both entering the season's stretc...

genres
Billy Wilder’s “Witness” and the Pleasures of Genre Fiction

A commenter going by the cybernom of Pascal Fervor has made some interesting and  pro...

commerce
A Tribute to John Dickson Carr

This is the last day in which I can decently mark the centennial of the birth of the truly...

mysteries
Closer Returns Tonight

The TV crime drama The Closer returns tonight with a two-hour movie to kick off its third ...

mysteries
Inspector Mom—Mysteriously Good

 Confession time: I make a habit of not watching the Lifetime TV network, which appea...

genres
Deja Vu and Time Travel Fiction

 Two time travel movies are premiering today, and a none of those astounding mysterie...

mysteries
Religion in “Bones”

Another in our ongoing chronicle of fictional TV programs' treatment of religion . . .In l...

mysteries
Underfunded—Review

As mentioned earlier on these illustrious pages, the USA Network recently premiered the pi...

mysteries
Lord Darcy Online

I have some good news for you regarding Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy mysteries, which I hi...

mysteries
Jonathan Creek Arrives

Today, at long last, Jonathan Creek comes to DVD in the United States. This excellent Brit...

movies
America’s REAL Top Sleuths

TV "Best of" lists are usually at best arguable and often fatuous, but the Sleut...

mysteries
CSI Gets Religion Big-Time

Religion is all over the place on network TV series now. Many programs just can't seem to ...

mysteries
Murder City, and an Unorthodox TV Detective

I've been watching the British ITV mystery series Murder City since it began a few weeks a...

manners-and-morals
Fannysmackin’ Our Vegas Mentality

The closing words of tonight's episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation express a truly g...