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Her first novel was published in 1977, but her next three manuscripts were rejected. She was determined to "devote her next efforts to creating an intriguing murder mystery staged around an engaging sleuth," and came up with her mainstay characters Inspector Luke Thanet and his colleague Sergeant Michael Lineham in The Night She Died, the first of a series of 15 novels. [1]
Darrow & Darrow is an American/Canadian series of mystery TV movies created by Phoef Sutton [1] and starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley as idealistic lawyer Claire Darrow and Tom Cavanagh as Miles Strasburg, the Assistant District Attorney.
Brett Halliday (July 31, 1904 – February 4, 1977) is the primary pen name of Davis Dresser, an American mystery and western writer. Halliday is best known for the long-lived series of Michael Shayne mysteries he wrote, and later commissioned others to continue.
The Proverbial Murder: first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in July 1943, as "The Proverbial Murderer". The Locked Room: first published in Strand Magazine in July 1940. The Wrong Problem; The Hangman Won't Wait; A Guest in the House (a shortened and altered version of Death and the Gilded Man) Others: The Devil in the Summer House
Ngaio Marsh’s 1934 murder mystery A Man Lay Dead is set during a murder-mystery party in an English country house in which one of the guest is actually murdered with a dagger. [7] In the 1973 mystery film The Last of Sheila, characters play a game where they are assigned secret roles, and which leads to a possible murder.
Davis, an adopted child, was born in Chicago in 1916 [1] and raised in Illinois by Margaret (née Greer) and Alfred J. Salisbury. [2] She worked in Chicago in advertising as a research librarian and as an editor of The Merchandiser, prior to taking up fiction writing. [3]
Murder She said is a 1961 comedy/murder mystery film directed by George Pollock, based on the 1957 novel 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie. The production stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple , along with Arthur Kennedy , Muriel Pavlow , James Robertson Justice , and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's husband).
In most of Miss Silver's cases there is a young couple whose romance seems ill fated because of the murder to be solved, but in Miss Silver's competent hands the case is solved, the young couple are exonerated, and all is right in this very traditional world." [7] Wentworth also wrote 34 books outside that series.