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Set your DVR's. Masterpiece Mystery begins its new season on June 15, 2014, with two episodes of THE ESCAPE ARTIST starring David Tennant as Will Burton. June 15, 2014 PBS; 9PM ET The Escape Artist Episode 1 (90 mins) Star defense lawyer Will Burton finds his happy family life threatened...

Found this comment that a top UK Amazon Vine reviewer made on his review of the DVD of THE MISS MARPLE COLLECTION starring Joan Hickson. The DVD contains twelve disks, all twelve of Christie's Miss Marple novels, and was released September 24, 2012 (B007OTT25Y) for Region 2 players. Price...

Sorry, book and film friends, this is not a review! Well, it is in a sense. It's a review of a reviewer! I had to write it...I hope you read it... As of last week, Kyle Harris has written 3,274 customer reviews for Amazon. He currently has 92% helpful votes (50,449 of 55, 017). About 80%...

Regardless of lack of eager volunteers for above post...Linda, I thought you may be interested in these two critical review snippets that I used in my book review of ENDLESS NIGHT by Agatha Christie last month: The London Times Literary Supplement states in 1967 that ENDLESS NIGHT written " in...

In the spirit of an old mystery trivia thread....can you find the twelve most helpful changes in my article that Linda so kindly suggested to me? The most obvious one was an interesting learning experience : Normal protocol for addressing a member of the United Kingdom mobiliary rank just below...

Thank you, Linda, for your comments. Would you please read my preview again with your English school teacher's eye...and point out any typos or punctuation errors or awkward phrasing? An assistant young editor with the local newspaper was impressed by my help for an article she wrote about...

For a change of pace how about my recent Preview of Agatha Christie's Marple - Series 6 that I have titled Julia McKenzie takes a last stand as (Miss ) Marple. The DVD has not been released in the USA...but is available for Region 2 on Amazon UK. (By the way, if you want to add the complete...

NEW YORK, May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2013. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at our...

Stuart Neville just announced on Facebook that his RATLINES has been nominated for the long-list THEAKSTONS CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR. I think he wants the handmade, engraved beer barrel. I read Neville and Griffiths...and have some McKinty's and Billingham's in my TBR file. Who do you read...

Stuart Neville just announced his RATLINES has been nominated for Theakstons on his Facebook.. I think he wants that hand-engraved beer barrel prize! Here's the long-list: Who do you read on it? I enjoy Neville and Griffiths...and always wonder why one of Lee Child's books are listed (guess...

pontalba....the dvd (a BBC/Sundance production) of William Boyd's RESTLESS is being released for purchase on Amazon UK on June 16, 2014. It's rather pricey and you have to have an all regions dvd player to play it here in the USA. Cheer up, Maine! We got DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY: The novel in...

Just for you, Pontalba....my review of the Gary Oldman film: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. (I've been reading John LeCarre for years....and have watched almost all the films..) alt= A review of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [DVD] [2011] TINKER, TAILOR...

Back in September 2010...I participated in a group read of RESTLESS by British best-selling author William Boyd. Boyd is an interesting mainstream fiction writer; however, I found myself restless about his main male character Lucas Romer...his egotistical, arrogant spymaster...his lack of...

Water. Duck's Back. Paddle On. A review of Talking to the Dead: A Novel by Harry Bingham Paddle on. And that's what Bingham's quirky female detective does. We meet Bingham's new rookie copper at her job interview with the Cardiff, Wales police department. Fiona Griffiths, age 26, recent...

Sheryl, you must be thinking of THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD. Perhaps only Linda, our esteemed English teacher, can hint more broadly at the device Dame Christie used in both ACKROYD and ENDLESS NIGHT. She called our attention to it in a review of THE GREAT GATSBY. Thanks for commenting... Jane

Some of you know I moderate a discussion of A new mystery genre: Gothic tales of dark old houses on GoodReads. Several weeks ago I read a Canadian gal's review of ENDLESS NIGHT by Agatha Christie. The gal illustrated her review with a photo of Frank Lloyd Wright's FALLINGWATER. A modern...

Thanks RTS...now I'll have to tackle Tartt's SECRET HISTORY again. Before I read The Goldfinch. Surely would like to see a good review of Tartt's books. Did anybody we know do one?

Libby, I can't believe I can top you "spouting a few sound bites" but when I was living (and selling books) in my hometown in South Carolina .... I "starred" in a CITY CONFIDENTIAL (2000) which was a somewhat less lurid true life murder show on A& E. Here's the link...

Whoops....Maine. And I liked Season 1 of The Bletchley Circle. WAS didn't like it....for much the same reason you aren't liking Season 2. But naturally he went a bit farther and said those women were secretarial not code breakers..... His misogyny (primarily toward us fairer females) is...

James Sallis...the American crime writer. I don't know whether I want to read him or see Ryan Gosling in another film adapted from one of Sallis's novels (he did write a sequel). The film I reviewed was DRIVE from the novel of the same name... When American crime writer James Sallis, wrote...