Posts Tagged ‘mystery’
‘Girl Who Played with Fire’ Is Impelled by Moral Obsession
If there was ever an author whose work I ought not to [...]
Debate: New ‘Sherlock Holmes’
The new film Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie, has done very well indeed at the U.S. and global box offices since its December 25 release, and it has evoked much dispute between Holmes purists and Holmes evangelists. Here are opinions from two very different mystery fiction aficionados. (more...) [...]
Murder and Miscreants for Christmas
On a hot August day in a big U.S. city after World War II, [...]
‘The Red Right Hand’ Praised
A classic mystery novel has just received some well-deserved new appreciation, S. T. Karnick writes. (more...) [...]
Monk and God
In the absence of God, humans seek ultimate control over the world—and never find it. TAC correspondent Dean Abbott examines the religious implications of the USA Network show Monk. (more...) [...]
Ed Hoch, RIP
One of the very best mystery writers of our time is gone.Ed [...]
‘Monk,’ ‘Psych’ Mid-Season Premieres Strong
Last night's mid-season premiere episodes of Monk and [...]
TV Mystery Series with a Twist—NBC’s Journeyman
The new NBC program Journeyman, Mondays at 10 p.m. EDT, is [...]
Another Try at Genre-Bending
The mixing of genres can be interesting when it works, but [...]
Rowling Along on Mystery Novel
J. K. Rowling, author of the mega-bestselling Harry Potter [...]
A Series of Appealing Mysteries
The BBC TV program Mayo, now showing on BBC America as The [...]
The Dead Sleep Lightly—Review
My fellow Golden Age of Detective Mysteries afficionado [...]
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 [...]
The Case of the Ectoplasmic Ecdysiast
A regular visitor to this site, who goes by the mysterious [...]
An Intellectual Intuitive TV Detective
NBC-TV premiered an interesting and innovative new [...]
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