A compendium of recently published mystery news articles. Note that we're rapidly catching up on getting news items posted and once current plan on publishing once a week or so. This update includes news items from late July 2008.
• The Times had an article titled "It's no mystery why we love detective stories". The author notes that the twin attitudes that gave rise to the Victorian detective, faith in reason and mistrust of appearances, flourish today as never before. A bit heavy on the pro-British aspect of the genre (it is, after all, a UK paper), but otherwise interesting.
• The Chicago Sun-Times profiled Doug M. Cummings, author of the Reno McCarthy series. Cummings, a former sheriff's deputy and later a crime reporter, self-published his first mystery, Deader by the Lake, but his most recent, Every Secret Crime, was published by Five Star. As pointed out in the article, both novels feature not only journalists, but also private investigators, politicians and police. Incompetence, venality and corruption prevail on the printed page, but Cummings insists he does not disrespect any of the professions portrayed negatively in his books.
• UPI reported that David Suchet is set to reprise his role at Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in 2 episodes to be aired next summer on Masterpiece Mystery! (Another report by the Philadelphia Inquirer suggests it will be 4 episodes.)
• Gameinvest announced the development of a new murder mystery game, Defenders of Law, for the Nintendo DS and Wii. The game will also be available for Windows PC. Defenders of Law is a puzzle-based crime drama players choose to be one of five star litigators within a criminal law firm hired to defend the main suspect in a murder. No release date has been set. [MBN note: Find a large number of mystery games for the PC, Nintendo DS and Wii, as well as mystery games available to play online or to download, at Games of Mystery.]
• In other game news, Warner Bros. announced that they will be publishing an episodic downloadable game based on their upcoming feature film Watchmen. A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the game is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are not only real but have ultimately been outlawed. One former hero goes looking for the truth behind the murder of one of his own
• In still more game news, in a press release, PopCap games announced that the third game in its Mystery PI series will be released this winter for the Nintendo DS. In Mystery PI: Portrait of a Thief, players become a private investigator tracking an art thief to recover missing paintings stolen from a private collection. [MBN note: Find more mystery games for the Nintendo DS at Games of Mystery. Also, the first two games in the Mystery PI series are available for download from PlayFirst games.]
• The third in a series of mystery movies based on the books by Richard Stevenson, On the Other Hand, Death, was set to debut on here!, gay television on demand. The movie stars Chad Allen as private eye Don Strachey who investigates a hate crime in his home town of Albany NY. Two other books have been filmed: Third Man Out (released in 2005) and Shock to the System (released in 2006). Both are available on DVD. [MBN note: For more information about mystery books that have been adapted for the big screen, or even the little screen, visit Mysteries on DVD.]
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