books
‘Girl Who Played with Fire’ Is Impelled by Moral Obsession

If there was ever an author whose work I ought not to enjoy, it would be the late Stieg L...

movies
Debate: New ‘Sherlock Holmes’

The new film Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie, has done very well indeed at the U....

books
Murder and Miscreants for Christmas

On a hot August day in a big U.S. city after World War II, a man in a Santa Claus suit m...

books
‘The Red Right Hand’ Praised

       A classic mystery novel has just received some w...

genres
Monk and God

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

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...

television
TV Mystery Series with a Twist—NBC’s Journeyman

The new NBC program Journeyman, Mondays at 10 p.m. EDT, is an attempt at a mystery series ...

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...

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 Dead Sleep Lightly—Review

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

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...

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...

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...