by StrandMag | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog Article, Detectives, Reviews
DVD Review: Blue Bloods: The Ninth Season and Blue Bloods: The Tenth Season The police procedural has been a staple of television screens for nearly seventy years, and for just as long, viewers and critics have critiqued how dramatic descriptions of police. In...
by Leonard Goldberg | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog Article, Detectives, Sherlock
What Makes Sherlock So Special What indeed! Sherlock Holmes has been with us for over one hundred years and the public’s interest for him remains unquenchable. He is known the world over and is so familiar that his name has become part of our vernacular. Moreover, he...
by Viv Groskop | Jun 16, 2020 | Authors, Blog Article, Detectives
The mystery author so prodigious he had no idea how many books he’d written Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle regularly come top of lists of mystery authors with the most titles sold. But in a contest to win Most Consistently Prolific Crime Writer of...
by Nisha Singh | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog Article, Detectives, Sherlock
Since some of the earliest detective fiction, authors have used mysteries to explore human behavior. While many investigations begin with physical evidence, it is often the act of diving deeper into the minds of the criminals or villains that reveal the truth. Author...
by Cathy Ace | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog Article, Detectives
FROM JACK REACHER TO SHERLOCK HOLMES THE ENDURING POWER OF PREQUELS “LET’S START AT THE VERY BEGINNING” Those of you humming the song that begins with the title of this piece will likely know the next line is “A very good place to start…” but,...
by Sarah Trott | Feb 28, 2017 | Authors, Blog Article, Detectives
The Legacy of Raymond Chandler Part II A ‘Lost’ Generation, Found: Raymond Chandler’s Legacy Although physical violence and brutality have always existed as important facets of crime fiction, the early pioneers of the genre created a style of writing in which acts of...