mysteries
‘Monk’, ‘Psych’ Return This Friday, Other Classic Mysteries Not So Easy to Find

       USA Network resumes original episodes of its top...

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Che Movie; Palin Haters; New Number 1 on TV

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mysteries
A Pair of Mysterious Christmas Presents

    Ellery Queen's "The Dauphin's Doll" and Fredric Brown's ...

books
New Mystery Volume Brings Turbulent ’60s to Life

      A new collection of 1960s and '70s mystery stories pro...

mysteries
U.S. Version of ‘Life on Mars’ Starts Well

     ABC TV's American version of the much-lauded BBC police dram...

mysteries
America’s Father Brown

    Melville Davisson Post's "Uncle Abner" is one of the gre...

books
Revelations: Communitarianism, the NEA, Detective Fiction

    Anti-communitarianism, the National Education Association, and wha...

movies
Guy Ritchie Talks About His Upcoming Sherlock Holmes Film

Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock Holmes film has been in the news lately. It was recently a...

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Sherlock or Schlock?

Two new Sherlock Holmes film adaptations are taking very different approaches to the class...

manners-and-morals
A Tale of Two Romances in Primetime TV

Two episodes of TV drama series on the same night showed a mature, thoughtful understandin...

mysteries
New Episodes of Monk, Psych Start Tomorrow

New episodes of USA Network's excellent mystery-comedy series Monk and Psych start tomorro...

books
The Case for Fredric Brown

The mid-century mystery and science-fiction master Fredric Brown deserves much greater rec...

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HBO Lightens Up With New Detective Series

Could this be the start of a new trend toward greater optimism and positivity in the cultu...

books
The Light in “Dark” Fiction

"Dark" fiction can have highly positive values behind it, writes S. T. Karnick. ...

genres
Monk and God

In the absence of God, humans seek ultimate control over the world—and never find it...

genres
A Defense of Pop Fiction

Here's a preview of an article coming soon on another site. I've been working with the edi...

genres
‘Dexter’ Comes to CBS

This Sunday night at 10 p.m EST, CBS attempts to bolster its writers-strike-depleted prime...

mysteries
Ed Hoch, RIP

One of the very best mystery writers of our time is gone.Ed Hoch, author of nearly a thous...

mysteries
‘Monk,’ ‘Psych’ Mid-Season Premieres Strong

Last night's mid-season premiere episodes of Monk and Psych, both on the USA Network, were...

books
Tie-In Novels for ‘Psych,’ ‘Burn Notice’

After the success of several tie-in novels featuring characters from the USA Network detec...

mysteries
DVR Alert: ‘Monk’ and ‘Psych’ Return

USA Network's superb comedy-mystery series Monk and Psych return to action with new o...

genres
A Dangerous Mystery Writer

TAC Mystery Fiction Correspondent Mary Reed reviews a classic novel by English suspense wr...

genres
BBC’s Excellent “Life on Mars”

My favorite BBC programming has always been its mystery series, and the best of those are ...

mysteries
A Charlie Chan Christmas

Here's a charming Christmas program for your enjoyment: from the Charlie Chan radio series...

genres
The Problem with Contemporary Detective Fiction

In an essay provocatively called "The Slow and Agonizing Death of the Private Detecti...

genres
The Value of the Trickster

A classic type of literary and folk-tale character is the trickster, an individual who rou...

mysteries
Monk, Psych Christmas Specials Premiere

Tonight USA Network presents two mystery-comedy Christmas specials.At 9 EST (repeated at 1...

movies
An Essential Mystery Film

There's an excellent mystery film on Turner Classsic Movies tonight at 7:00 EST: Green for...

movies
The Falcon

One of my favorite movie detectives is Gay Lawrence, aka the Falcon, a gentleman-sleuth an...

books
More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne: Review

Edward D. Hoch's More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (2006), ...

books
The Dr. Sam Hawthorne Mysteries

Edward D. Hoch is one of the very greatest living mystery writers.Of course, you've probab...

books
New Spillane Novel on the Way

Mystery writer Mickey Spillane, whose hugely successful crime novels disturbed critics and...

genres
Breen Demystifies “The Da Vinci Code”

Mystery critic Jon Breen, writing in The Weekly Standard, has offered the best capsule des...