I enjoy whodunnit mysteries. What are some of your favorites? TV, mini-series, books, let me know which ones you like!
Lately I have been watching The Rockford Files and Columbo on that channel you get by hooking up an antennae to the toaster. Good fun.
I’ve read a few of them. They were good. What I was interested in when I was younger 70s was mystery theater on the radio. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
My dad was a big fan of Perry Mason on TV and I grew up with that, and still tune in on occasion. I think I've read all the Agatha Christie novels and a good bit of Ngaio Marsh. In a more modern vein, I liked the Alex Delaware novels by Jonathon Kellerman. Of course my love of the whodunnit began as a young child reading Encyclopedia Brown and later The Hardy Boys.
I enjoy MYSTERIES to the MAX!! Some of my favorite authors... John D. Mac Donald's Travis McGee Series Robert B. Parker - Spenser and Jesse Stone Series' James Lee Burke - Detective Robicheaux John Sandford - Prey Series w Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers Lee Child - Jack Reacher Series Robert Crais - Elvis Cole PI Michael Connelly - Det Harry Bosch Vince Flynn - Mitch Rapp Series
I stream a lot of that stuff on Internet Archives when I am driving. All the old classic shows are free for the listening.
Just looking through my NooK, here are some I haven’t seen mentioned: Loren Estleman - The Amos Walker Series, and Walter Mosley - EZ Rawlins Series are a couple of good ones that I am re-discovering. I like Wambaugh stuff, and I read all the Rizzoli and Isles stuff from Tess Gerritson. I also liked reading Elmore Leonard. W.E.B. Griffin wrote a pretty good series about the Philadelphia PD. The Longmire books are pretty good. Better than the show, I thought. James Ellroy wrote some pretty good underworld novels. (Black Dahlia, LA Confidential....) Robert Parker (Spenser) wrote a pretty good series about a couple of gunfighter cowboy sheriff types. The Hitch and Cole Series. The Sue Grafton alphabet series is pretty good for those quick, burn through them type reads.
I have burned through all of the Gunsmokes, Dragnets, This is your FBI, Fort Laramie, and am working on Richard Diamond. I mix in Suspense and Lux Radio Theater. For comedy, I enjoy Fibber McGee, and The Great Gildersleeve. I drive too much.
Only ones that come to mind for me is The Hardy Boys books, Young Sherlock Holmes movie and the new Sherlock Holmes movies starring Robert Downey Jr.
My Bride and I enjoy watching reruns of In the Heat of the Night, Matlock, and Murder, She Wrote. We just saw the new Murder on The Orient Express movie. My Bride is a longtime reader of murder mysteries. I just asked about her favorite authors, and she responded with Martha Grimes, Elizabeth George, Terry Blackstock, Carrol O'Conell, Joanne Fluke, Sue Grafton....and about a dozen others. This is something she has enjoyed all her life. As a child, she and her brothers wore out several Clue board games from regular use. She would have been a great investigator. Cool thread.
Dan Biggers, who played Dr. Robb the medical investigator on In the Heat of the Night, was a good friend of mine. We went to church together and his sons and I went to school together. Funny guy, who had some great stories about filming the show, as well as several movies he appeared in. Sadly he passed away about 7 years ago.
Thread revival..... My wife and I have been listening to the podcast Up and Vanished which follows a cold case of a woman who disappeared in south Georgia in 2005. Fascinating stuff! A well-done podcast by filmmaker Payne Lindsay. https://upandvanished.com/
Lots of what's mentioned, plus MURDER IN COWETA COUNTY, made for TV movie based (sort of) on a real life murder back in the '40s. Andy Griffin plays the most evil SOB you could imagine, more so because of the contrast with Andy Taylor. Johnny Cash is good too. Good movie.
My parents loved Gunsmoke I bet they began watching it before they were my parents!(pre-1957, they were married in late 1955).
