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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...

As Scott Bettencourt notes in Film Score Friday , there's a new release from Dragon's Domain records, Gerald Fried: The Crime Dramas...

Over on The Rap Sheet , J. Kingston Pierce conducts an extensive interview with Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, authors of McFarland 's H...

Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) in a tight spot in The 39 Steps (1959) There's a new Call for Papers for a theme issue of Clues: A Journa...

As Scott Bettencourt mentions in Film Score Friday , new releases include John Barry's score for the James Bond film  On Her Majesty...

Ad for Shaft's Big Score (1972, screenplay by  Ernest Tidyman) Archives on the Air of Wyoming Public Radio features an image of a press...

The Pontefract [UK] Civic Society announced the placement of a blue Heritage Plaque at Denby Farm, the childhood home of mystery writer J...

Arthur Conan Doyle,  NYPL If you missed this year's lectures related to Arthur Conan Doyle (hosted by the Conan Doyle Collection in Plym...

As Scott Bettencourt notes in Film Score Friday , Intrada has issued a 40th anniversary edition of the score by Bruce Broughton for Young Sh...

Kansas Public Radio's Film Music Friday recently featured the music of composer David Raksin , including his haunting theme for Laura (...

Rod Serling testifies before  the FCC in Jan. 1960. John Kiesewetter of Cincinatti's WVXU writes of the upcoming unveiling of a histori...

Toledo [OH] Public Library, which hosts the Jennifer Fisher Nancy Drew Collection , has posted videos from the April 2025 Nancy Drew 95th A...

My Jury Box column has been published in the July/August 2025 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine , including reviews of short story collections ...

Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, authors of McFarland 's Harry O Viewing Companion , clear up misconceptions about the beloved PI series a...

Martin Sheen in Pursuit (1972) As Scott Bettencourt writes in Film Music Friday , Intrada has released Jerry Goldsmith's score to the TV...

Malden, MA, has honored its native son, author-attorney Erle Stanley Gardne r, unveiling a mural by Fred Seager on May 19 that pays tribute...

Graphic Audio will release in June a new full-cast dramatization of Elizabeth Peters ' Crocodile on the Sandbank , the first in her se...

  As Scott Bettencourt writes enthusiastically in Film Score Friday , John Cameron's score to The Mirror Crack'd (dir. Guy Hamilton...

The hardworking Nathan Ashman (University of East Anglia) nabbed the Edgar in the Best Critical/Biographical category for his book James Sa...

Clues: A Journal of Detection 43.1 (2025) has been published; see below for abstracts. Contact McFarland for a hard copy issue or a subscr...

Cover of 2015 Omnibus ed. (in French) of Allingham's The Crime at Black Dudley New to Librivox's free audiobook catalog is Margery A...

Elizabeth Foxwell (left) and Peter Lovesey, Malice Domestic VIII, 1996.   Like many in the mystery world, I reeled from the news that the mu...

On The Magic Book podcast, Rebecca Josephy (Oakland Univ) talks about the collection she edited, Magic, Magicians and Detective Fiction: E...

Kansas Public Radio's Film Music Friday pays tribute to Gene Hackman, who died in February, including the score for The French Connecti...

In Film Score Friday , Scott Bettencourt discusses the release by Quartet Records of the score to Cape Fear (dir. Martin Scorcese, 1991), i...

New from McFarland: The Harry O Viewing Companion by Steve Aldous and Gary Gillies, with comprehensive information on the 1972–76 TV series...

J. C. Bernthal, author of Agatha Christie: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction , will discuss the life, work, and enduring popularity of Chri...

The Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Assocation announced its latest Dove Awardee: David Geherin , professor emeritus of Engl...