One of the greats of the mystery genre, too little appreciated these days, is Ellery ...
There are three interrelated plot strands to The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty, a hi...
It seems no one is clean in the ABC Network’s Thursday night serialized drama American ...
Your daily roundup of cultural events: Gen-Xers who grew up wearing proton packs, take he...
He parked in a little neighborhood near the service road. He sat behind the wheel with his...
Hot on the heels of the return to print in the United States of Belgian writer George Si...
Tonight brings us the two-hour conclusion (CBS, 8-10 p.m. Eastern) of The Mentalist, on...
The new FOX series Backstrom (Thursdays, 9 p.m. Eastern), which premiered last week and ...
There are two strains in the tradition of the mystery story. They exist in tension but are...
One of the great achievements in European popular fiction during the twentieth century was...
I've just discovered that several (and possibly all) episodes of the great 1970s TV series...
In a year of unsettling cultural stories—from the Ray Rice domestic abuse video to Rob...
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PLATED SPOON AND OTHER TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES — Edited by Loren D...
I've just discovered that a digital edition of three mystery novels by contemporary autho...
Here's good news for mystery fans and others who appreciate intelligent TV dramas: Acorn...
The former A&E TV crime-drama series Longmire, cancelled this year, has found a new h...
There's good news for TV mystery fans: CBS-TV has announced that The Mentalist will retur...
While reading a mystery novel from the "golden age" of detection, the 1920s to the early '...
The new CBS-TV crime-drama series Scorpion is a clear attempt to refresh the cop show g...
The new film The Blue Room is based on a Georges Simenon detective story (which I have not...
My attitude toward genre fiction is that it's best when the creator is satisfied to make g...
(GIVE ME THAT) OLD-TIME DETECTION - Summer 2014 - Issue #36 - Old-Time Detection Special...
The ABC-TV series Castle (Mondays at 10 p.m. Eastern) features as co-protagonist a bestse...
I write this post with a heavy heart. Blue Bloods has been one of our family’s favorite ...
It's been a "damn fine" year for admirers of the early-1990s ABC TV series Twin Peaks:...
In choosing programming, ABC-TV tends toward what its managers must think of as a rather ...
My web friend Enrique F. Bird is a longtime aficionado of mystery and detective fiction an...
"The rain rained.” It takes a tremendous amount of courage, or foolishness, to begin a...
NBC is trying a fresh approach to drama in the new series The Mysteries of Laura (Wedne...
Do the TV networks have too little respect for the market power of older Americans? So s...
U.S. fans of the UK TV mystery series Inspector Lewis take heart and heed: Oxford poli...
