Director Roman Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne invented the modern film noir with this unusually sun-drenched drama of a 1930s Los Angeles private eye (Jack Nicholson) whose investigation of a ...

Robin Stevens’ boarding school detective mysteries have so far been set firmly in the former territory, but now with A Spoonful of Murder, Stevens shifts the action to 1930s Hong Kong.

their married couple was a throwback to a long-ago movie era. Audrey and Nick Spitz, a pair of working-class New Yorkers turned semi-amateur detectives, might as well be Nick and Nora Charles, the ...

the 1930s cocktail-swilling crime solvers. "Murder Mystery" and its new sequel don't have anywhere near the sparkle of the "The Thin Man" movies, with William Powell, Myrna Loy and their wire fox ...