'The Thin Man' turns 90: Celebrating the pairing of Powell and Loy
Susan King revisits the classic caper movie that launched a franchise.
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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 culprit was ascertained. Detective stories frequently operate on the principle that superficially convi...
Deciphering the mystery of the movies' best Miss Marple.