Dead Beat: Directed by Kevin Carlin. With Geraldine Hakewill, Joel Jackson, Catherine McClements, Toby Truslove. Peregrine's ex-boyfriend has been implicated in the murder of a pop singer from a popular television show and Peregrine is determined to inve
The Golden Age of Murder; the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective storyA real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clu...
The real Templars were still very much alive and kicking in 1200. But the fact that writers were beginning to fictionalize them wasn’t surprising. By the first decade of the 13th century the order was well known. Anyone with a passing interest in the Holy Land could not fail to have hea...
Director Gore Verbinski and writers Scott Frank and Ehren Kruger retain the original’s focus on atmosphere and creepy imagery over cheap scares, while Naomi Watts — fresh off her sensational turn inMulholland Drive— is excellent as the reporter and mother who discovers the haunted videotape that...
Eugene Francois Vidocq was an 18th-century criminal who reformed himself and became the father of modern criminal investigation. He was a convict, escape artist, detective, and more.
and many will miss the thorough atmospheric tension which writers like Machen are careful to build up with words and scenes. But only a few of the tales are open to the charge of tameness. Generally the laconic unfolding of abnormal events in adroit order is amply sufficient to produce the ...
The attitudes by writers and viewers alike at failing to see a male character as the victim of rape is extremely discomforting. “He doesn’t act gay enough”- The portrayal of LGBT characters in films. 28Sep In the 21st century, it’s pretty much a given that stereotypes are an issue...
(aka Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig) who was massively famous in the 1940s but has faded into obscurity now. I asked Eddie to share why he thinks her fame waned. His take is that she was a woman writing fiction in a man’s world. When Raymond Chandler became popular, writers were ...
Designed from plans stolen from the Doctor in the Home of Science Fiction, it is larger inside than outside. The Home of Mystery is endless and defies all laws of science. Sub-genres merge and separate. Writers, characters, and books can exist in more than one place at the same time. ...
The first in a fantastic YA series inspired by Jane Austen’s novels, I adored this clever book and its twisty murder mystery. Teenager Lizzie Bennett dreams of being a solicitor when she stumbles upon a scandalous society murder that may help her prove her place in the field of law. Of ...