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Susan King revisits the classic caper movie that launched a franchise.

Eagle Archives, Feb. 21, 1930: A new clue was found on the origin of the spinal column of a human skeleton which turned up at the Berkshire Athenaeum, but the

Let’s take a look at the many words that include the combining form of “phil” or “phile” and see what we can uncover. 

Detective story, type of popular literature in which a crime is introduced and investigated and the culprit is revealed. The traditional elements of the detective story are: (1) the seemingly perfect crime; (2) the wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial evidence points; (3) the bungling of dim-witted police; (4) the greater powers of observation and superior mind of the detective; and (5) the startling and unexpected denouement, in which the detective reveals how the identity of the cul...

Deciphering the mystery of the movies' best Miss Marple.

There is love at first sight, as everyone knows, and there are, somewhat surprisingly, "statistics at first sight". What is that? In the infamous matter labelled by now as "the Hans Niemann cheating case" (a title that S.S. Van Dine would have greatly appreciated, as well as the mystery surrounding the case) such "statistics at first sight" have attracted the undisputed attention of every party involved – and above all the attention of the ones not involved. | Pic...

When Diana Lewis and William Powell wed after only a short courtship, the union shocked Hollywood.

LibriVox

LibriVox

Here’s how we reviewed now-famous mysteries by the likes of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy Sayers, Dashiell Hammett and more.