Author Laura Lippman combines a light amateur sleuth story with a harder-edged thriller, combining both types of mysteries, ...

Spade shut the door and carried the parcel into the living-room. Gutman's face was red and his cheeks quivered. Cairo and Brigid O'Shaughnessy came to the table as Spade put the p ...

Undoubtedly one of the best detective thrillers ever made, the third filmed version of Dashiell Hammett's crime novel marked a brilliant directorial debut for John Huston, and also gave Humphrey ...

Humphrey Bogart didn’t hide his feelings about some of his disappointing films, so it means a lot that he described one as a ...

As its title, 'Life and Art' suggests, and with humor and intelligence, the essays span culture, personal history, politics ...

T here’s simply no greater joy than free bread. It’s free, it’s bread, and life under capitalism pretty much demands that we ...

Work began in 1933 and ended in 1937, concluding the immense project in only four years. The bridge came in exactly on budget ...

Although suggested as early as the late 1800s, the Golden Gate Bridge was not seriously considered until the 1920s. In 1921, ...

In this week's installment of Cineplexity, NPR staffers contemplate the best director-actor collaborations in film.

The novelist Rex Stout created a detective called Nero Wolfe, who grew orchards, drank gallons of beer and never left his ...

Crime novels account for a huge proportion of the book industry and they are widely considered to be the most popular genre. From authors such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, here are the ...

With world-class production values, including sumptuous cinematography, production design and costumes, this epic is a rip-snorting historical revenge thriller of the first order. Helmed by a ...