The mixing of genres can be interesting when it works, but when it doesn't, it's usually a...
J. K. Rowling, author of the mega-bestselling Harry Potter books, is writing a detective n...
The central moral issue of the past century was whether a traditional (in fact, millennias...
Another interesting summer TV program on cable is the elegantly named series Murder, which...
As I mentioned in my post last week on the season premieres of USA Network mainstays Monk ...
Tonight brings the season premieres of the mystery-comedy shows Monk and Psych on US...
The BBC TV program Mayo, now showing on BBC America as The Gil Mayo Mysteries, is an exemn...
Our friend Mike Tooney called our attention to the following passage in William K. Everson...
Nancy Drew, the new theatrical film based on the classic girls' book series (the first the...
Sometimes ignorance helps. Not being a regular viewer of The Sopranos, upon viewing the en...
My fellow Golden Age of Detective Mysteries afficionado Mike Tooney has written an excelle...
Do producers and TV networks have an obligation to their viewers?Producers and networks ar...
In contrast to the other worthies at last night's Simi Valley, California, debate among ca...
A few weeks ago I eagerly purchased a copy of the new book Night of the Wolf, a collection...
A regular visitor to this site, who goes by the mysterious name of Mike (not Linda), wrote...
NBC-TV premiered an interesting and innovative new detective series last night. Jeff Goldb...
Short answer: no.A comment placed on my Tony Dungy item, below, suggests a worthy item for...
Your voice has been heard! A couple of months ago we asked your support in getting the gre...
The USA Network mystery-comedy series Monk and Psych are both entering the season's stretc...
A commenter going by the cybernom of Pascal Fervor has made some interesting and pro...
This is the last day in which I can decently mark the centennial of the birth of the truly...
The TV crime drama The Closer returns tonight with a two-hour movie to kick off its third ...
Confession time: I make a habit of not watching the Lifetime TV network, which appea...
Two time travel movies are premiering today, and a none of those astounding mysterie...
Another in our ongoing chronicle of fictional TV programs' treatment of religion . . .In l...
As mentioned earlier on these illustrious pages, the USA Network recently premiered the pi...
I have some good news for you regarding Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy mysteries, which I hi...
Today, at long last, Jonathan Creek comes to DVD in the United States. This excellent Brit...
TV "Best of" lists are usually at best arguable and often fatuous, but the Sleut...
Religion is all over the place on network TV series now. Many programs just can't seem to ...
I've been watching the British ITV mystery series Murder City since it began a few weeks a...
The closing words of tonight's episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation express a truly g...
