The Maltese Falcon, Laura, and Out of the Past are considered some of the best detective film noir movies according to IMDb.

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

Modern movies like Drive and Sin City capture the elements of the noir genre, with seedy characters, corruption, and a dark ...

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 ...

Leonardo DiCaprio is a great admirer of Hollywood icon Humphrey Bogart, calling his role in 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' his greatest performance.

Richard Russo, whose “Fool” trilogy is beloved for the characters he created to populate a fictional upstate New York town, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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