Mystery

Updated on Friday November 11, 2005.

You read mysteries to sink into an ongoing series character?  To get to know a person and his/her problem-solving style?  Come to this page to discover authors you will follow from series to series.  

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	This Complete Second Season DVD set contains the shows first aired in 1985-1986.  They have been rerun in various places -- in various orders which can be confusing.  If you want to study formula TV, using one of the most classic Mystery formats, get this set watch each episode with a notepad in hand.  Make a scene by scene outline, then compare them and extract the formula.  You can use that formula in your own writing.
If you read mystery-thrillers, all I have to say is here's the Dec 2004 Tony Hillerman release.  Don't miss it.	Skeleton Man (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels) by Tony Hillerman List Price: $25.95
Columbo - The Complete First Season (1971) List Price:   $59.98	Many of the homework assignments in our writing workshop and standing course THE ESSENCE OF STORY suggest that you study TV shows to grasp the point of the lesson.   Columbo is one of those shows worth studying -- the scripts are all masterpieces.  And besides, these episodes are such FUN.
Erika Soccoro writes in her Amazon review: "Mary is a fun, yet extremely intelligent protagonist, who's hardworking demeanor, and great outlook on life, even though she has suffered many hardships, is inspirational, and uplifting. Her character will win a place in the hearts of female readers the world over. The law firm that she works for, Rosato and Associates, is reminiscent of the various womens-only television shows, and will have fans of Lifetime Channel for Women's programs dying to read the next Scottoline novel. A must-have!" Erika Sorocco	Killer Smile (Scottoline, Lisa) by Lisa Scottoline List Price: $25.95
The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries - Speedy Death (1999) List Price:   $19.95 A DVD to the pilot for a mystery series.  Mystery is alive and well, and pays marvelously, but it's hard to write.  Study this series.	From Amazon Reviews: This free adaptation of Gladys Mitchell's classic crime novel Speedy Death as a vehicle for a full-blooded performance by Diana Rigg as the louche 1920s analyst Mrs. Bradley is a splendid piece of period drama with an intriguing puzzle at its heart. Mrs. Bradley attends the engagement party of her crippled goddaughter Eleanor, only to find the home of her old beau, Eleanor's father Bing (John Alderson), a hotbed of intrigue and sudden death. Eleanor's unsatisfactory fiancé Everard is found drowned in the bath after quarrelling with the former suitor whose bad driving crippled Eleanor; someone tries to shoot the fiancée of Eleanor's brother Gorde. Full of memorable characters like the sinister housekeeper Mrs. McNamara (Lynda Baron), Speedy Death is an impressive feature-length curtain-raiser to a popular series. For once, a detective has to investigate a crime where she has something seriously at stake--her sense of her own past and her own friends. --Roz Kaveney
Detectives Michael McCain and Doris Breton unravel the mystery in Beantown, while two other new characters, Darryl Two Moons and his partner Steve Katz, discover that gallery owner Larry Olafson's brutal slaying has repercussions that resonate far beyond Santa Fe's trendy Canyon Road.	Double Homicide by Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman List Price: $23.95 Massive discounts sometimes available.   Oct 2004 release
Campion - The Complete First Season List Price:   $79.98 Note that's CAMPION not "champion" -- and this is a mystery series on DVD -- watch for the big discounts on amazon.	"Do you take the long road?" asks a gruff restaurant manager of a hapless drifter. Thus is launched one of the serpentine mysteries written by Margery Allingham, featuring a genteel 1930s sleuth named Albert Campion (played by Peter Davison, a former Doctor Who), whose bland good manners mask a macabre humor and a relish for solving crimes. All of Allingham's stories take the long road, winding their way through a collection of eccentric personalities, improbable murders, and unexpected narrative twists. ... more
Street Dreams by Faye Kellerman (Author) List Price:   $25.95 See the discount today.   "Street Dreams" are the nightmares cops have from all the traumatic things they see.  This novel deals with trauma and overcoming it.  It's also got a great romance in it.	Death, Bones, and Stately Homes: A Tori Miracle Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery by Valerie S. Malmont List Price:   $13.95 Try this - visit an interesting place, meet interesting people - solve an interesting mystery.  And if you like it, there's a series.
Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman List Price:  $25.95 One of my all-time FAVORITE mystery series, and immensely popular.   Faye is the husband of Jonathan Kellerman, also a mystery writer.	I've just read this book and reviewed it for  2003.  There's a lot to discuss in every Faye Kellerman novel.   AMAZON SAYS: Family business can be deadly, as Peter Decker discovers in Kellerman's latest thriller starring the L.A. police lieutenant and his wife, Rina Lazarus. Decker's half-brother Jonathan, a New York rabbi, asks for help when his wife's brother Ephraim Leiber is slain execution-style in a seedy New York hotel room, and the victim's teenage niece Shayndie, who may have witnessed her uncle's murder, disappears. But it soon becomes apparent that not everyone is as eager more
Poirot - Murder on the Links (2002) List Price:   $24.95 Studying the clasics is the best way to start learning to write.  Dissect Poirot and learn about what works and what doesn't in a form which depends entirely on one character to work or not-work for your reader.   Check for holiday discounts!	Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (Strong Poison / Have His Carcass / Gaudy Night) 3 DVD set List Price:   $59.98 Most sf fen I know are Sayers fen too.  This is the perfect gift for the writer studying mystery -- Sayers perfected it!
Now here's a lavash gift for that very most favorite person on your list.   Click to discover the DISCOUNTS!!!	The X-Files - The Complete Sixth Season (1999) List Price: $149.98 But watch for specials. Save this in your Wish List and order later with ONECLICK!
The Forgotten: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel by Faye Kellerman List Price: $26.00 See my full review in my January 02 review column, Rereadable Books.	As you can see from the review below, I'm a Decker/Lazarus fan, and I can hardly wait to find time to read this one!   I have not enjoyed the other Faye Kellerman titles nearly as much as I enjoy these stories.
Look for the other books in Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes series via used sources.	O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King List Price: $23.95 Hardcover - 367 pages (June 1, 1999) Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd); ISBN: 0553110934 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.27 x 9.36 x 6.25 Other Editions: Paperback Number of Reviews: 47

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