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DVDs: Not Crazy About Mad Men, The Very Cool Peter Gunn, Goofy Carol Burnett And More

Michael Giltz | Posted 12.31.2012 | Entertainment
Michael Giltz

Here's a rundown of some terrific sets that came out just in the last two or three weeks. It's impossible to put them in order of preference: many of these are gems we've been waiting a long time for.

Why Do I Write Mysteries?

Lev Raphael | Posted 12.14.2012 | Books
Lev Raphael

Reading offered relief and distance, especially the alternate worlds of science fiction and history. Mysteries promised something better once I discovered them: the assurance that things made sense, that evildoers were punished, and order could be restored.

Time To Return To Egypt?

Jean Newman Glock | Posted 08.28.2012 | Travel
Jean Newman Glock

If you have never been, now is the time to go. Tourism -- and prices -- fell dramatically following the Arab Spring, but tourist have begun to return.

13 Great Female Mystery Writers

Posted 08.16.2012 | Books

The first female detective is generally agreed to have been "G", the hero of "The Female Detective," an 1864 novel soon to be republished by the Briti...

The Evolution Of Detectives In Fiction

Max Allan Collins | Posted 07.08.2012 | Books
Max Allan Collins

Here are the authors and their creations who, in my view, changed the detective game.

Agatha Christie Characters Become Americans

AP | Posted 02.29.2012 | Books

SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot and other Agatha Christie characters are now under American ownership. Acorn Media Group announced ...

The Grey Could Keep You Up All Night

Carole Mallory | Posted 03.26.2012 | Entertainment
Carole Mallory

Complaint. Don't leave the theater once the credits come on. Ever. There is a tag ending here.

35 Classic One-liners About Aging

John Blumenthal | Posted 02.03.2012 | Fifty
John Blumenthal

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," said Woody Allen, "I want to achieve it through not dying."

Found: An Unseen Miss Marple Story

Posted 11.21.2011 | Books

Out this week, "Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making" is the second volume compiled from Agatha Christie's notes and letters based on 73 unpublished ...

The Pera Palace Hotel, "Pearl of Istanbul" (PHOTOS)

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 10.22.2011 | Travel
Barry Yourgrau

The guest book here is heavy with potentates, prime ministers, and the likes of Garbo and Mata Hari, Hitchcock and Hemingway, and of course Agatha Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express in Room 411 in the early '30's.

Long-Lost Agatha Christie Telegram Found: What Did it Say?

Posted 10.05.2011 | Books

Much information about writer Agatha Christie has been uncovered over the past few weeks, from her love of surfing to a riveting discovery made in Eng...

Which Famous Female Author Loved To Surf?

John Curran | Posted 10.02.2011 | Books
John Curran

'Surfing looks perfectly easy. It isn't. I say no more. I got very angry and fairly hurled my plank from me. Nevertheless, I determined to return on the first possible opportunity and have another go.

Time for a Good Book

Roger Fransecky | Posted 09.04.2011 | Books
Roger Fransecky

I confess to liking, collecting, sharing and savoring both mysteries and thrillers. My favorite sleuths are, like me, flawed and curious in an often dark, confusing and fallen world.

Favorite Outdoor Reads

nytimes.com | Amy Goldwasser Is the Editor Of “Red: Teenage Girls in America Write on What Fires Up Their Lives Today.” Peter Arkle Recently Published the 57th Issue Of “Peter Arkle News.” | Posted 08.06.2011 | Books

For many people, summer reading involves SPF, shirtlessness and bare feet in the grass. On a recent partly sunny Sunday afternoon on the Sheep Meadow ...

Birthday Tribute: Albert Finney's Finest

John Farr | Posted 07.27.2011 | Entertainment
John Farr

Finney cares a great deal about his work, but very little about publicity. Nominated five times for an Oscar, he has never once attended the ceremony.

Huffpost Readers' Picks: What Book From Childhood Can't You Forget? (PHOTOS)

Posted 07.16.2011 | Books

Most of us remember that time in our childhood when we picked up a book that we just couldn't put down. Our imaginations were such that it transported...

A Peek Inside Famous Writers’ Homes

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.05.2011 | Books

Last month, The New York Times ran a slideshow of Norman Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment, which will be up for sale shortly. This got us thinking ...

Jennifer Garner Becoming An Old Spinster?

Posted 05.29.2011 | Entertainment

This beloved classic is getting a facelift. Quite literally. Disney has closed a deal for a big screen reboot of Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple" myst...

Google Honors Agatha Christie With Doodle On British Homepage

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

The Google doodle shows Poirot -- the only fictional character ever to receive a full-page obituary in the New York Times -- and a cast of characters ...

What Guantanamo Detainees Are Reading

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

There's not a lot to look forward to if you're one of the 176 prisoners held in the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay -- no visits from loved...

Agatha Christie's House of Lies

Jeff Klima | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Jeff Klima

All this Stieg Larsson bashing around here these days has been cause celebre for me to grab my own torch and pitchfork. Now I, like some of y...

Sweden's Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg's Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who? (VIDEO)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Jesse Kornbluth

Nine million people live in Sweden. Camilla Läckberg has sold three million books there. She is, her publisher boasts, "the most profitable native author in Swedish history."

P.D. James On The Enduring Appeal Of Detective Fiction

Telegraph | Sarah Crompton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

The greatest mystery of detective fiction is why generations of readers have continued to read it in such huge numbers. Obviously, it is partly to do ...

Top 10 African Crime Novels

The Guardian | Michael Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

The African crime writing duo pick the best books in their field, from established greats Agatha Christie and John Le Carré to newer names on the sce...

ReelzChannel: Top Ten "Hazardous Cargo" Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

For the ambitious music industry intern Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) in Get Him to the Greek, the task was supposedly easy: Escort a musician from London ...