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On the Periscope Films YouTube channel , there is a newsreel program, "It Seemed Like Yesterday." In it, there are a few seconds o...

Vincent Starrett, ca. 1926. The Torists International will be hosting the conference "And It Is Always 1895" in honor of the 140t...

This week on Channel 4 Radio Extra is Simon Brett 's Dead Room Farce featuring Bill Nighy as actor Charles Paris, always ready for a dr...

  As Scott Bettencourt notes in Film Score Friday, Dragon's Domain Records has released The Golden Age of Crime Dramas , vol 1, which i...

Collection of Mary Fortune stories published by Verse Chorus Press and coedited by Lucy Sussex and  Megan Brown The Nightlife radio program...

Edgar Allan Poe, 1848. Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Div. The American Literature Assn conference will take place at Chicago...

Clues vol. 44, no. 1 (2026) has been published. See below for abstracts. For a subscription, contact McFarland . This post will be updated ...

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...