Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As an avid lover of crime procedurals, I planned to share my definitive ranking of fictional detectives. But then I realized ...

There never seems to be a shortage of good crime shows on TV, and network television is teeming with detectives who think -- and act -- differently. As a scholar of popular culture, I've long been ...

Do great recurring characters in mystery novels you love become old friends? You learn so much about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. In his ...

It was a pleasure becoming reacquainted with “Magpie Murders” over the last three Sunday nights on PBS. Each evening featured two episodes of the six-episode series as a lead-up to the premiere next ...

Murder mysteries and police procedural dramas are some of the best and most popular TV series, and in many cases, the reason for the show's popularity lies in the main TV detective leading the series.

Not long before her death in 1982, I commented to Anna Freud on the large collection of detective fiction in the house she shared with her father in his final years of exile in London. She informed me ...

There never seems to be a shortage of good crime shows on TV, and network television is teeming with detectives who think – ...

The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary ...

Starring Christian Bale as a world-weary detective, this adaptation was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's short tenure at West Point Military Academy. Millie Bobbie Brown's latest Netflix project looks ...

There never seems to be a shortage of good crime shows on TV, and network television is teeming with detectives who think -- and act -- differently. This fall, new seasons of Elsbeth, High Potential, ...