This Memorial Day weekend, read some of the dispatches of Ernie Pyle. Born in Indiana in 1900, Pyle was known during World War II as ...

Sunday night the Oscars will be awarded. But rather than make predictions on the nominees, I thought I would do a short list of my favorit...

Thirty-five years after it hit bookstores, James Ellroy’s The Big Nowhere still has the power to thrill and nauseate. So much so that a rea...

If you’ve heard that Ted Lewis’ Jack’s Return Home is one of the grittiest British crime novels ever written – believe it. Is Jack’s... th...

Halloween is approaching, and while there are more than enough slasher films and boogeyman movies to watch this weekend, here are two films ...

Reading Roseanna confirms that Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall were a hell of a great crime writing team. Their publishers must have thought so, ...

In this comic mystery series, three residents of an old, stately Manhattan apartment building meet and then learn that another resident di...

In 1969, author Mario Puzo hit the jackpot with his blockbuster novel, The Godfather , about the fictional Corleone crime family.   For many...

One of the weirdest mystery shows to come along has to be Dead Still . The six-part series is about a Victorian photographer who specializes...

Dashiell Hammett’s first novel, Red Harvest , and an earlier series called, “The Cleansing of Poisonville,” published in the pulp magazine B...