The Bunburyist

Hot off the presses at McFarland and Co. is Frederick Knott and Dial M for Murder , in which playwright Richard Weill traces the history of ...

On McFarland's Best Part of the Book podcast , executive editor Caroline Reitz (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY/CUNY Graduat...

The latest episode of Kansas Public Radio's Film Music Friday focuses on music in the films of Alfred Hitchcock , including The Man Who...

Stewart King's Murder in the  Multinational State: Crime Fiction from Spain (Routledge, 2019) The latest recipient of the Dove Award—wh...

  Agatha Christie, Sept 1964. Dutch National Archives Milwaukee Rep is hosting an Agatha Christie Festival through June, which includes the...

As John Bettencourt notes in Film Score Friday, Caldera has released John Cameron's score for Agatha Christie's Witness for the Pros...

As Scott Bettencourt notes in Film Score Friday, Intrada has issued From New York to Hollywood: Music for Albertina Rausch and Classic Film...

John Dickson Carr's It Walks by Night New free audio mystery releases from Librivox . It Walks by Night .  John Dickson Carr 's debu...

Nathan Ashman's James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction Author James Sallis died on Jan 27 at age 81. Although he might be bes...

Over on the Science Museum Group blog , Chloë Abley discusses poisons in Golden Age mysteries, including their use in works by Agatha Christ...

As The Map Room blog points out, an article by Axel Bax et al. (Cornell University) in Computational Humanities Research 2025  that takes ...

A recent episode of Kansas Public Radio's Film Music Friday featured the TV work of Jerry Goldsmith who moved from clerk-typist to com...

Blackstone Publishing has issued a new illustrated edition of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon   (originally published in 1930).

New from Herb Lester Associates is Dorothy L. Sayers' Britain , a map of locations in the works of Sayers. The writer is Eric Sandberg  ...

Noah Beery Jr. (background) and James Garner (foreground)  in "Sleight of Hand," The Rockford Files (1975) I came across a post on...

Eleanor Parker in Caged (1950) Recent episodes of Kansas Public Radio's Film Music Friday feature Warner Brothers scores (including T...

On December 15, Nicholas Birns and his mother, Margaret Boe Birns (both NYU), will talk about their new book, Agatha Christie Under the Ma...

The inquiring Elizabeth Foxwell.  I missed the 20th anniversary of The Bunburyist (which occurred on November 5). I've been very busy as...

Film Score Friday reveals that there's a new CD from Intrada available of Thomas Newman's score for The Thursday Murder Club (dir....

Jesse Bethea on Columbus Underground reports on the unveiling of a new historical marker on the Antioch College campus that honors writer-p...

Film Score Friday brings news of the following new releases: •   Gerald Fried's score for What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?   (dir. Lee...

Joseph Cotten, left, with Jack Moss in Eric Ambler's Journey into Fear (1943) A recent episode of Kansas Public Radio's Film Music...

Illustration of suffragist and lawyer  Catharine Waugh McCulloch , elected as a justice of the  peace in Illinois in 1907  ( Long Valley [I...

Sign for the Edward Gorey House. Photo by Elizabeth Foxwell. I recently visited the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouth Port, MA, which was a fa...

"Lestrade took out his official note-book." Illustration by Sidney Paget for "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,"  by A...

Steve McQueen in Bullitt (dir. Peter Yates, 1968) A recent Film Music Friday on Kansas Public Radio pays tribute to jazz in films, includin...

Volume 43, no. 2, of Clues: A Journal of Detection has been published—a theme issue on Disability and Detective Fiction, guest edited by Su...

Scott Bettencourt notes in Film Music Friday of the upcoming release by buysoundtrax of famed Hungarian composer Mikl ó s R ó zsa 's sc...

Rod Serling, from a 1959 Mike Wallace interview The Yellow Springs Film Festival (Ohio) plans a tribute to Rod Serling on October 2, featur...

In honor of CrimeCon , McFarland is running a sale on its true crime books . Use coupon code CRIMECON25 to save 20 percent through the end o...