Hercule Poirot is better known for solving murders on trains and riverboats, but he also solves a killing on an airplane (or “aeroplane,” by the
“The Woman in the Window” (Netflix) calls to mind Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” as Amy Adams’ Anna – an agoraphobic if you want to be nice;
It’s been more than 20 years now, so I guess “Sphere” (1998) won’t become a cult classic. But darn it, it should have. This Michael
There are two types of mystery readers: Those who view the book as a puzzle they must solve, and those who read it for the
Most Michael Crichton novels have an immediate hook, which is often right there in the title, or at least the one-sentence description: “The Andromeda Strain”
Like “The Mysterious Mr. Quin,” “Parker Pyne Investigates” (1934) is a one-off collection of episodic short stories that launches a new and unusual investigator. The
“Cruel Summer” (Tuesdays, Freeform) would’ve been a frothy summer cable series a decade ago. Today, TV schedules are less rigid, but this teen/family mystery gives
In “The Boomerang Clue” (1934), as with the 1922 Tommy and Tuppence novel “The Secret Adversary,” Agatha Christie uses the mystery format to write a
“Peril at End House” (1932) comes relatively early in Agatha Christie’s career, but already it feels like an effortlessly crafted Poirot mystery, featuring all the
I’ve been reading a fair amount of old books lately (as readers of my Sleuthing Sundays series know) and I notice characters often pause for