"Murder by Death Murder by Death is a 1976 American satirical mystery comedy film with a cast featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore. The plot is a broad parody or spoof of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans of classics such as Agatha Christie's ""And Then There Were None"". The cast is an ensemble of British and American actors playing send-ups of well-known fictional sleuths, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple,"
"is some overlap with ""thriller"" or ""suspense"" novels and authors in those genres may consider themselves mystery novelists. Comic books and graphic novels have carried on the tradition, and film adaptations or the even-more-recent web-based detective series, have helped to re-popularize the genre in recent times. Mystery fiction can be divided into numerous categories, including ""traditional mystery"", ""legal thriller"", ""medical thriller"", ""cozy mystery"", ""police procedural"", and ""hardboiled"". Mystery fiction Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. Often with a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with"
"Mystery fiction Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. Often with a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character oftentimes will be a detective who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader. Sometimes mystery books are nonfictional. ""Mystery fiction"" can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be"
"hope this is the first in a series."" A Beautiful Blue Death A Beautiful Blue Death, by Charles Finch, is the first novel in a series of mysteries featuring Victorian gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox. The novel, set in 1865 London, follows Charles Lenox as he seeks to solve a murder. Lenox is an independently wealthy gentleman who enjoys solving crimes as a hobby, though he generally prefers to pass the cold winter days in his library with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. He is drawn into a new case when his lifelong"
"as a hideout to switch identities. But who killed him? Ellery Queen, who is drawn into the investigation to help old friends, is able to look beyond the strange nature of the victim to seek hard facts. He puts his finger on the central question: ""Who was murdered -- Joe or Joseph?"" Queen performs an extended feat of logical deduction from seemingly insignificant clues, such as a number of burnt matches, and finally develops a profile of the killer that can fit only one person in the case. (See Ellery Queen.) After nine popular mystery novels and the first of"
"Locked-room mystery The ""locked-room"" or ""impossible crime"" mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime (almost always murder) is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene. The crime in question typically involves a crime scene with no indication as to how the intruder could have entered or left for example a locked room. Following other conventions of classic detective fiction, the reader is normally presented with the puzzle and all of the clues,"
"is assigned to investigate the death of a mage whose brother believes did not die of natural causes as claimed, but was murdered for his money. (Additional note: Debra Doyle helped Rosemary Edghill come up with the idea for the book) Cold Case by Diane Duane: Detective Sergeant Rob DeFalco has the ability to speak to ghosts and works on cases for the police where he speaks to the victims of the murder to solve the cases which have been put on hold for a while. He is assigned to discover the killer of Tamara Eldridge, but there's another death"
"Murder Mysteries ""Murder Mysteries"" is a fantasy short story by Neil Gaiman first published in the 1992 anthology ""Midnight Graffiti"" and later collected in his collection ""Smoke and Mirrors"". The angel Raguel is called upon to solve a mystery in the Silver City—an angel has been murdered and he has to find the killer. It was adapted by the author into an audio drama, which was produced by Seeing Ear Theater in 2000, starring Brian Dennehy and narrated by Michael Emerson. (Gaiman and Seeing Ear Theatre went on to collaborate on an adaptation of another story, ""Snow, Glass, Apples"", and"
"fictitious nature of the premise. The opening narration of the final episode reiterated that the contestants were solving ""fictitious crimes,"" and even explicitly mentioned the confusion. A companion book series, also titled ""Whodunnit?"", is available in digital format. It is written by Anthony Zuiker and published by Hyperion Books. The first book, ""Whodunnit?: Murder in Mystery Manor"" was released on June 16, 2013. A second book, ""Whodunnit?: Murder on Mystery Island"" was released on August 27, 2013. The series is a fictitious season of the events happening in the television show, with Giles, as the main character. It is stated"
"Henry Spearman, Professor of Economics at Harvard, finds himself on the track of a murderer and once again Marshall Jevons presents his readers with a captivating murder mystery riddle. Was it Morrison Bell, mathematics star, inventor of devices to defeat the squirrels in his birdfeeders? Or was it owl-like Oliver Wu the distinguished sociologist who harbors deep resentments? Was it Valerie Danzig, supposedly former ""item"" with Dennis Gossen? Or maybe Foster Barrett, gourmet Harvard classicist? What about Cristolph Burckhardt, infatuated employer of Gossen's fiancee? Or Sophia Ustinov, Russian emigre, lover of American poetry and Borzoi hounds? Three lives come to"
"comic book series that made good use of locked-room mysteries is Mike W. Barr's ""Maze Agency"". In the 21st century, examples of popular detective series novels that include locked-room type puzzles are ""The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"" (2005) by Stieg Larssen, ""Bloodhounds"" (2004) by Peter Lovesey and ""In the Morning I'll Be Gone"" (2014) by Adrian McKinty. Locked-room mystery The ""locked-room"" or ""impossible crime"" mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime (almost always murder) is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime or evade detection in"
"a few debut and swansong stories: Detective fiction Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades. Some"
"Crime"", was already noted for containing significant fictional elements. True crime True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people. The crimes most commonly include murder; about 40% focus on tales of serial killers. True crime comes in many forms like books, films, television shows, and podcasts. Many works in this genre recount high-profile, sensational crimes such as the JonBenét Ramsey killing, the O. J. Simpson murder case, and the Pamela Smart murder, while others are devoted to more obscure slayings. True crime works can"
"Contract killing in popular culture Fictional cases of contract killing or ""hitmen""–murderers who are hired to kill an individual or group–are depicted in a range of popular fiction genres in the 20th and 21st century, including films, comic books and video games. Fictional contract killers or ""hitmen"" in crime films and action films: ""Offbeat"" portrayals from the mid-1990s to the 2000s: More rarely, romantic comedies have used light-hearted depictions of assassins: Portrayals of hitmen that have earned major nominations or awards: In other countries the vision of the hitman is often one of a tragic individual with a solitary existence:"
"Contract killing in popular culture Fictional cases of contract killing or ""hitmen""–murderers who are hired to kill an individual or group–are depicted in a range of popular fiction genres in the 20th and 21st century, including films, comic books and video games. Fictional contract killers or ""hitmen"" in crime films and action films: ""Offbeat"" portrayals from the mid-1990s to the 2000s: More rarely, romantic comedies have used light-hearted depictions of assassins: Portrayals of hitmen that have earned major nominations or awards: In other countries the vision of the hitman is often one of a tragic individual with a solitary existence:"
"serial killer prowling Los Angeles’s gritty streets. But when a new murder deviates from the pattern, derailing a possible profile, Alex and Milo must look beyond the suspicion of madness and consider an even more sinister mind at work. Answers don’t come easy, but the darkest of drives and desires may fuel the most devious of foes. Bones (Kellerman novel) Bones is a mystery novel by American author Jonathan Kellerman. The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something “real dead . . . buried in your marsh.” The eco-volunteer on the other end of the"
"begins to wonder aloud if Geoffrey Martin, the eccentric artist who has moved into the house next door, might be a serial killer. Molly's friends have a hard time believing her, but Paul Davidson, a police detective, thinks something funny is going on in the neighborhood after a number of missing persons cases are reported. But can Paul build a case against the killer before Molly becomes his next victim? Good Neighbor Good Neighbor, also called The Killer Next Door (MIFED Title), is a 2001 thriller with Billy Dee Williams, Danica McKellar, Tobin Bell. A young woman discovers the fine"
"mystery (or rather, sealed cave mystery) set in Australia around 35,000 BC, which Ashley suggests is the furthest in the past a historical mystery has been set to date. Diana Gabaldon began the ""Lord John"" series in 1998, casting a recurring secondary character from her ""Outlander"" series, Lord John Grey, as a nobleman-military officer-amateur detective in 18th century England. Using the pen name Ariana Franklin, Diana Norman wrote four ""Mistress of the Art of Death"" novels between 2007 and 2010, featuring 12th-century English medical examiner Adelia Aguilar. ""Publishers Weekly"" noted in 2010 of the genre, ""The past decade has seen"
"Detective fiction Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades. Some scholars, such as R. H. Pfeiffer,"
"four-year-old cold case into which homicide Lieutenant Hank Donaghue and Detective Karen Stainer are drawn when a three-and-a-half year old boy begins to recall alleged memories of his previous life as the murder victim, who was his mother's cousin. Set in the fictional city of Glendale, Maryland, this story features an unusual pairing in Hank Donaghue, the wealthy son of a retired State's Attorney, and Karen Stainer, the daughter of a Texas state trooper. The second book in the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series, ""Marcie's Murder"" finds Lt. Hank Donaghue on vacation. He stops overnight in the small town"
"remote cabin in the woods and David's old instructor asks him to tag along for a fresh pair of eyes at the crime scene. A fingerprint at the crime scene leads them to a man who had died six months earlier and whose own body has been replaced in his grave by that of someone far older than he was. It becomes clear that they are dealing with someone who has the same intricate and detailed forensic knowledge that they have and that a serial killer is on the loose. Whispers of the Dead Whispers of the Dead is the"
"a nearby factory town as a favour to one of the agency's associates. At first glance, the murders look garden-variety human, but on closer inspection signs point to otherworldly stakes. Soon Savannah is in over her head. She's run off the road and nearly killed, haunted by a mystery stalker, and freaked out when the brother of one of the dead women is murdered when he tries to investigate the crime. To complicate things, something weird is happening to her powers. Pitted against shamans, demons, a voodoo-inflected cult and garden-variety goons, Savannah has to fight to ensure her first case"
"Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to ""Big Brother"", rocket when a housemate is murdered. Unlike a typical whodunnit, Elton does not reveal the identity of the victim until around halfway into the book. The novel is about a murder that occurs on a reality television programme called ""House Arrest"", which is very similar to the program Big Brother, and the efforts of three police officers to identify the killer by watching all the video recordings of the ten housemates while the remaining"
"The Canary Murder Case The Canary Murder Case (1927) is a murder mystery novel which deals with the murders of a sexy nightclub singer known as ""the Canary,"" and, eventually, her boyfriend, solved by Philo Vance. S. S. Van Dine's classic whodunnit, second in the Philo Vance series, is said by Howard Haycraft to have broken ""all modern publishing records for detective fiction."" The earliest editions give the title with quotation marks around the word ""Canary"", but most subsequent editions omit them. The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as ""The Canary"", is found murdered in"
"sort out the twin problems of who's really who and whodunnit. The Unicorn Murders The Unicorn Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery (more precisely, it is a subset of that group, an impossible mystery) and features his series detective, Sir Henry Merrivale. Kenwood Blake is with the British Secret Service and romantically involved with another agent, Evelyn Cheyne. Together with Sir Henry Merrivale, they become embroiled in a battle between Flamande, the most picturesque criminal in France, and"
"start asking herself questions about the case at hand. In the 2011 novel ""Mr. Monk on the Couch"", a subplot has Natalie attempting to figure out the identity of a man found dead in a seedy hotel room with a phony ID. Monk and the police are not interested in pursuing the case, given that said man is determined to have died of natural causes. At the same time, Natalie helps Monk investigate a series of violent knifings occurring in the general vicinity of her neighborhood. Natalie's past is filled with instances of youthful devilry, in a seeming deviation from"
"murder investigation and needs his help to clear her name. Along the same time as Hui-ru Zhu is accused of murder, a group of homicide cases from a decade ago return to the spotlight. The reason: the likeness to a series of gruesome murders linked to a suspect with the online user name of The Snowman. With striking similarities to a string of recent homicides linked to serial killer, and ex-cop, Wen Luo. While Wen Luo has evaded arrest, he has accidentally and intricately become involved in the murder that Zhu Huiru’s accused of, by covering up any evidence that"
"Occult detective fiction Occult detective fiction combines the tropes of detective fiction with those of supernatural horror fiction. Unlike the traditional detective, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, curses, and other supernatural elements. Some occult detectives are portrayed as being themselves psychic or in possession of other paranormal powers. Edgar Allan Poe wrote three stories featuring a detective involved with the occult named C. Auguste Dupin, starting with ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"" which was first published in 1841. Fitz James O’Brien’s character Harry Escott is another contender for first occult detective in fiction. A specialist"
"of murders in US in which all victims appeared willing to die. The crime scenes imply the involvement of supernatural forces. In one case a businessman froze to death in his office in the middle of a heatwave; in another the mistress of a prominent official called the fire department and was later found burned to death - with no sign of a fire ever occurring in her apartment. Richter is skeptical but Huang, who is more receptive to supernatural possibilities, suggests they investigate a local cult. After consulting a scholar in Academia Sinica, Huang and Kevin find that the"
"grandmother whole (in some stories, he locks her in the closet) and waits for the girl, disguised as the grandma. ""The Three Apples"", a tale in the ""One Thousand and One Nights"" (""Arabian Nights""), is the earliest known murder mystery and suspense thriller with multiple plot twists and detective fiction elements. In this tale, a fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river and he sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces. Harun"
"Corpse by Josepha Sherman: When the Randolph Dexter, head of Dexter Arcane Industries, is found dead with his head missing, it is up to agents Wren and Coyote of the Magical Bureau of Investigation to solve the case. When the killer turns out to be a monster from another dimenstion that is unaffected by magic, it's up to the agents to figure out how to send it home before it kills again. A Death in the Working by Debra Doyle: Set in an alternate reality and written as though it were a historical story from that realm. Inquestor-Principal Jerre syn-Casleyin"
"The Unicorn Murders The Unicorn Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery (more precisely, it is a subset of that group, an impossible mystery) and features his series detective, Sir Henry Merrivale. Kenwood Blake is with the British Secret Service and romantically involved with another agent, Evelyn Cheyne. Together with Sir Henry Merrivale, they become embroiled in a battle between Flamande, the most picturesque criminal in France, and his arch-enemy Gaston Gasquet of the Sûreté. Both Flamande and Gasquet"
"music, featuring R.F. Daley, Jim Meskimen, Jennifer Aspen, Lori Jablons, John Mariano and Matt Scott. Dead Men Kill Dead Men Kill is pulp fiction mystery/zombie story written by L. Ron Hubbard. It was first published in 1934 in the July issue of ""Thrilling Detective"" magazine. Detective Terry Lane has little to go on to unravel this unusual mystery, a blue grey glove, and a Haitian pharmacy bill for a very strange drug. As some of the cities most respected citizens inexplicably die from what appears to be zombie attacks, Lane finds himself a recipient of death threats. To complicate matters,"