mystery-writer
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    Movies

    Swimming Pool (2003)

    A British novelist (Charlotte Rampling) clashes with her publisher's (Charles Dance) wild daughter...

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    Pulp (1972)

    People die after an ex-Hollywood gangster (Mickey Rooney) asks a British pulp writer (Michael Caine)...

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    Agatha (1979)

    Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film...

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    Murder Story (1989)

    An aspiring novelist (Alexis Desinof), his girlfriend and his literary mentor (Christopher Lee) lift...

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    House of the Long Shadows (1982)

    In this umpteenth remake of the George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers play Seven Keys to Baldpate, Desi...

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    A Murder of Crows (1999)

    A lawyer (Cuba Gooding Jr.) must prove he is innocent of murder after passing a dead man's tale of...

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    The House That Dripped Blood

    A Scotland Yard inspector (John Bennett) learns how four tenants of a country house met macabre...

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    Horrors of the Black Museum

    A struggling writer of mystery novels runs out of ideas and decides the best material is the real...

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    The Bat (1959)

    A mystery writer (Agnes Moorehead) and her friends are stalked by a faceless throat-ripper (Vincent...

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    The Wind

    A mystery writer (Meg Foster) goes to Greece, where a handyman (Wings Hauser) has a role in her...

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    Agatha

    A U.S. reporter (Dustin Hoffman) joins the search for writer Agatha Christie (Vanessa Redgrave),...

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    The Bat

    A killer in a bat costume prowls the night and baffles police. Silent.

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    Appearance of Evil

    June Elvidge is legally married to Douglas Redmond Jr., but no one in her small town believes this....

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    Blind Spot

    Chester Morris plays a mystery writer who bears a grudge against his publisher. Morris is mad enough...

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    The Conspiracy

    Already a veteran filmmaker by 1914 (he would make his last picture in 1958), Allan Dwan occupied...

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    Four Days Wonder

    Four Days Wonder is adapted from the A. A. Milne novel of the same name. New Universal contractee...

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    The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

    A smuggler (Sydney Greenstreet) and a Dutch mystery writer (Peter Lorre) trace the life of a master...

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    Midnight Mystery

    Several able silent-screen veterans converge in RKO Radio's Midnight Mystery. Sally (Betty Compson),...

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    Over My Dead Body

    If MGM's Red Skelton could make the mystery/comedy Whistling in the Dark, 20th Century-Fox's Milton...

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    Scared (2002)

    A group of young filmmakers encounter a serial killer while shooting their first independent movie.

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    TV

    Closer and Closer (1996)

    A wheelchair-bound female mystery writer is stalked by a man who models himself after one of her...

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    TV

    Past Tense (1994)

    An ex-cop turned mystery writer attempts to sort out the bewildering events leading up to the murder...

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    Agatha Christie's "Dead Man's Folly" (1986)

    Mystery writer Ariadne Olivier enlists the aid of Belgian detective Hercule Poirot when she...

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    TV

    Ghost Writer (1990)

    Pilot for a comedy/horror pilot about a mystery writer who lives in a sometimes-haunted Gothic...

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    TV

    A Slight Case of Murder (1996)

    A murder-mystery writer is set up by her neighbor to participate in her own murder.

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    TV

    Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend (2005)

    When someone tries to kill a famous mystery writer, the owner of the Mystery Woman Bookstore begins...

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    TV

    Mystery Woman: Game Time (2005)

    A shady but innocent videogame designer becomes the prime suspect when he is found standing next to...

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    TV

    The Web (1950-1954)

    Dramatizations that depict the plight of people who are suddenly trapped in perilous situations....