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Murder & Cocktails A financially struggling married couple starts filming themselves for a podcast when a gunshot rings out and they find their next-door neighbor is murdered. To find the killer, they invite the other residents over to probe for clues over cocktails. It gets more complicated when another body is found. No one is safe, and no one can be trusted as they try to unravel the mystery.
Night Moves Arthur Penn's haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress's missing daughter leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp.
Elizabeth Is Missing Maud is convinced something horrible happened to her best friend, Elizabeth, but in her search discovers it may be entwined with another disappearance from her childhood. The answers seem within her grasp, but the onset of dementia keeps pulling them through her fingers.
Gilded Newport Mysteries. Murder at the Breakers A society page writer in 1895 Rhode Island witnesses a murder while attending a ball at the Vanderbilt mansion and is drawn into the investigation when her brother is arrested.

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Subject Guide

Defining the Mystery Genre

At their heart, mysteries are puzzles to solve. Whether it is an amateur sleuth, a grizzled Private Detective, or a Police Officer who cracks the case, the reader is intended to try to figure out the puzzle right along with them.

Most credit Edgar Allan Poe with "inventing" the Mystery story, but it was the great Mystery authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and Agatha Christie, creator of the classic amateur sleuths, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, who established the genre.

Now one can find a Mystery novel set in nearly any historical time period, in any part of the world.

New Mysteries

Book Cover for Not Dead Yet by Jeffrey Siger

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The Crime Writers' Association Founded in 1953, supports and promotes both crime fiction and non-fiction.
Stop, You're Killing Me! The ultimate Mystery website! Spend hours here reading reviews and looking through author and character lists.
The Strand Magazine Online This magazine for Mystery lovers often features new short stories by prominent Mystery authors.

Agatha Awards Given out by the Malice Domestic group, the Agatha Award is described as honoring the "traditional mystery, best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. For our purposes, the genre is loosely defined as mysteries that: *contain no explicit sex *contain no excessive gore or gratuitous violence *usually feature an amateur detective *take place in a confined setting and contain characters who know one another." -Malice Domestic
The Barry Award This award is given out by Deadly Pleasures Magazine, a magazine for Mystery fans. All Mystery books and short stories are considered for this award.
The Dagger Award This prestigious award is given out by the British organization, the Crime Writers Association.
The Edgar Award Named for the father of the Mystery genre, Edgar Allan Poe, this prestigious award is handed out by the Mystery Writers of America.
The Shamus Award This one is given out by the Private Eye Writers of America organization and only applies to Mysteries featuring a private eye.
The Thriller Awards An honorary society of authors who write both fiction and non-fiction books classically defined as thrillers.

Bouchercon World Mystery Convention "The World Mystery Convention is a nonprofit, organization which holds an annual convention in honor of Anthony Boucher, the distinguished mystery fiction critic, editor and author."

Mystery Reads

Newly Added Mystery Movies

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Subject Guide

Defining the Mystery Genre

New Mysteries

Not Dead Yet

Essence of Foul Play

Battle Mountain

The Queens of Crime

Cold as Hell

Glitter in the Dark

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