The writers’ strike slowed down production, but mystery fans wouldn’t know it this month, as we’re hit with FX/Hulu’s “A Murder at the End of
Four years after Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” chronicled a mystery on a snowed-in train in Eastern Europe, Afred Hitchcock did the same
Before I started reading golden-age mysteries, I thought “meta” storytelling (stories that reference the fact that they are stories, or that they exist in a
Writer-director Stephen Cognetti wraps his “Hell House LLC” trilogy with the consecutively filmed “Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel” (2018) and “Hell House LLC
As the inventor of “Harry Potter” with riches flowing in for life, J.K. Rowling could do whatever she wanted. Luckily for fans of great detective
“Hell House LLC” (2015) was one of the last decade’s best “found footage” horror films. Then writer-director Stephen Cognetti got narratively ambitious with his sequels
Most well-regarded “found footage” horror movies burst into the mainstream with rumors of it being a true story (“The Blair Witch Project,” 1999), or night-vision
Hercule Poirot uses his knowledge of human psychology to solve crimes almost as much as he uses physical evidence. In her Christie estate-commissioned Poirot novels,
After adapting two Agatha Christie classics – “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile” – with an edgier, darker version of Poirot,
In “Night Film” (2013), Marisha Pessl blends the economical prose of old-school hardboiled mysteries with poetic bursts of insight into the human condition. The novel