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Detective film. Nick Torrent (Morgan) owns a scrap of a priceless Shakespeare manuscript and wants to sell it; but then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane (Montgomery) is a rare book...
New Zealand crime drama. In this episode the lead actor in an amateur production of Hamlet dies on stage just at the end of the play. Detective Mike Shepherd investigates a case of cyanide poisoning. The...
Feature film comedy. Detochkin, an insurance agent, is angry at the thought of crooks going unpunished and he begins a retribution campaign by stealing offenders’ cars, selling them, and donating the...
Legal drama series about a fictional defence attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. In this episode an actress (Field), searching for her long-lost son, is implicated...
Comedy crime film. In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. One of the nurses states that she has proof of who the murderer is. The facetious Inspector Cockrill...
Independent feature film. The Dahl Dynasty is a modern re-telling of Hamlet. Hamilton Dahl IV is the brooding heir to the Dahl family, and his quest for justice after the carefully-crafted murder of his...
Television series. A vampire soap opera loosely based on the role-playing game ‘Vampire: The Masquerade’. The main plot involves a San Francisco police detective, Frank Kohanek (C. Thomas Howell), who...
The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies by Bran Nicol (Reaktion, 2013). 224 pages. ISBN: 978-1780231020 (paperback), £14.95 About the reviewer: Dr Catherine Haworth, Centre for the Study of Music, Gender...
French television drama adapted from the novel of the same name, a re-working of the Hamlet story in detective fiction.
Screwball courtroom comedy with songs. Showgirl Peggy Harper (Hutton) is engaged to lawyer Oliver Clarke (Tufts), She is a compulsive liar and admits falsely to the murder of her producer-boss Wallace Brent...
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