Before forensic labs, digital tracking, and streaming mega-franchises like CSI or True Detective, television’s sleuths solved ...

The genre had shifted from shadowy backlot black-and-white mysteries to gritty, on-location films drenched in the sleaze and ...

I'm not really sure how I escaped my film school education without watching Chinatown, but it's one that's been on my ever-growing, never-ending watchlist for quite some time. The only things I knew ...

Every generation gets the Los Angeles snoop it deserves. In The Long Goodbye (1973), Elliott Gould plays Philip Marlowe—the noir detective originated by Dick Powell and immortalized on screen by ...

In a surprise to absolutely no one, I have a soft spot for Hercule Poirot. One of my mom's all-time favorite detectives, I've seen every iteration of every story, from Peter Ustinov to Kenneth Branagh ...

Season one had a grand, governmental conspiracy weaved into its plot. Police reports were altered, Louisiana’s Senator was implicated, Rust Cohle was always fighting the system in one way or another.

Adaptations of Agatha Christie's works almost always take some creative liberties to make them feel fresh and modern — some for the best, others woefully misguided. Warner Bros., for example, set ...