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Nick Pirog’s Thomas Prescott novels are worth reading just to watch a writer learning hi...
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One of the best TV series ever, Twin Peaks, will finally be released on Blu-Ray in the Uni...
The eleven tales that comprise the Lord Darcy series of Randall Garrett provid...
One of the finest early-period mysteries by one of the greatest mystery writers (actually ...
The long-running USA Network series Psych ends its run tonight (9 EDT) after eight season...
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This is actually a good time to talk about the BBC series Sherlock, season three of which...
I really like the reviewing work of Steve Steinbock in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine....
Dennis Palumbo’s novel Mirror Image is the first in a series of books about Dr. Daniel...
Finally putting the rumors to rest, USA Network has announced the cancellation of long-run...
In September of last year, I absolutely lost it. If you’re a regular reader of this site...
Another week, another passel of links into the wide, wide world of wondrous word-smith...
A while back I read Dick Francis' mystery, Decider, and decided I'd be reading more. So I ...
Yesterday, you may recall, I pointed out two TNT crime dramas with overt political message...
I have long argued that contemporary U.S. entertainment offers a much greater variety of i...
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Foreign menace strikes! Overseas crime novels are flooding U.S. shores, as American publis...
Law and Order: Criminal Intent, the long-running spinoff of the recently canceled TV crime...
Appleby Talks About Crime by Michael Innes Edited by John Cooper Crippen & Landru Publ...
The Columbo Collection by William Link Crippen & Landru Publishers Hardcover: ISBN-97...
Minnesota author John Sandford (real name John Camp) has established a nice little fran...
Let me make this perfectly clear: Harry Brown is not for the faint of heart. Although the ...
NBC has stopped work on its proposed private-eye series The Rockford Files—as we had sug...
In March of 2009, mystery author Stuart M. Kaminsky moved with his wife from his Saraso...
Fox’s FX channel has a history of pushing the boundaries of “free cable” program...
Last night's season premiere episode of the PBS drama series Masterpiece Mystery brought t...
The Nancy Drew book series just reached its 80th anniversary. These books were of better q...
Stuart M. Kaminsky, who passed away last October, was a consistently prolific and gifted...
'It's an historian's duty to uncover, not to judge.' He lit his pipe. 'Many people belie...
