Murder mysteries are best read in colder temperatures. Maybe the fall months are just naturally spookier, making readers want to curl up with a good whodunit (or watch a murder mystery movie). Or ...

While the first two Knives Out films by Rian Johnson are filled with subtle references to classic mystery novels, Wake Up Dead Man-now playing in select theaters-is far more direct. In a scene where ...

Mystery novels have some of the most addictive and memorable stories, and there have been many great additions to the genre in the last 25 years.

Books like And Then There Were None and The Talented Mr. Ripley are so influential that they became foundational entries in ...

The Nancy Drew novels were written under the name Carolyn Keene, although that was a pseudonym and several writers penned the books over the years. The book series featured a 16-year-old high school ...

Over the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson Carr’s “The Three Coffins” is among the very few I’ve enjoyed three times. This fall, Penzler Publishers has ...