Mystery Books
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China Bayles' Book of DaysReaders of the China Bayles mystery novels are familiar with the usefulness and wonder of the many herbs the amateur sleuth s
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Hocus Croakus: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery (Bed-And-Breakfast Mysteries)With major renovations going on at Seattle′s favourite B\′9126B, Mary Daheim moves Judith, Renie and the rest of the unforg
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Phantom Prey (Lucas Davenport)Lucas Davenport has had disturbing cases before— but never one quite like this, in the shocking new Prey novel from the #1
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Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski Novels)Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparab
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Total ControlTotal Heat Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a
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Tied Up in TinselA Christmas pageant turns unholy.Holed up at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor estate for Christmas, Troy Alleyn is to paint
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32 Cadillacs32 Cadillacs is the fourth novel in Joe Gores' delightful series about the San Francisco private eye firm Dan Kearny Associates. T
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Mystery Movies
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Lost - The Complete First SeasonFrom J.J. Abrams, the creator of Alias, comes the action-packed adventure that became a worldwide television event. Strand
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Devil's AdvocateOne part "The Firm" and one part "Rosemary's Baby," this supernatural suspenser features a rousing turn by Al Pacino as the charis
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The Bone CollectorDenzel Washington, Angelina Jolie. A paralyzed forensics expert and a rookie policewoman team up to nab a serial killer. 1999/colo
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CubeDVD. Feature film. Rated R.
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The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)Winner of two 1995 Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Original Screenplay, this masterful, atmospheric film noir enraptured audie
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Mystery Authors
Dick Francis biography
Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis was a British jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing. Francis wrote more than 40 international bestsellers. His first book was his autobiography The Sport of Queens (1957) which led to him becoming the racing correspondent for London's Sunday Express newspaper, remaining in the job for 16 years. In 1962 he published his first thriller Dead Cert, set in the world of racing. Subsequently he regularly produced a novel a year for the next 38 years, missing only 1998 (during which he published a short-story collection). Although all his books were set against a background of horse racing, his male heroes held a variety of jobs from artist (In the Frame and To the Hilt) to private investigator (Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Under Orders-- all starring injured ex-jockey Sid Halley, one of only two heroes used more than once). All the novels are narrated by the hero, who in the course of the story discovers himself to be more resourceful, brave, tricky, than he had thought, and usually finds a certain salvation for himself as well as bestowing it on others. Details of other people's occupations fascinated Francis, and the reader finds him- or herself immersed in the mechanics of such things as photography, accountancy, the gemstone trade, restaurant service on trans-continental trains - but always in the interests of the plot. Disfunctional families were a subject which he exploited particularly well (Reflex, a baleful grandmother, Hot Money, a multi-millionaire father and serial ex-husband, Decider, the related co-owners of a racecourse).
Information source: wikipedia