A compendium of recently published mystery news articles. This update includes news items from late-September and early-October 2008.
• The first mystery game featuring The Hardy Boys (The Hidden Theft) has only just been released but that hasn't stopped SEGA and Her Interactive (developer of the wildly popular Nancy Drew mystery games) from announcing in a press release the development of the first Hardy Boys game for the Nintendo DS, The Hardy Boys: Treasure on the Tracks. A Spring 2009 release date is expected.
• In one of its periodic Top 10 lists, Forbes magazine listed the world's best paid authors. Several mystery, suspense, and thriller authors are on the list. For the period July 2007 to June 2008 Forbes estimates Janet Evanovich made $17 million, John Grisham took in $25 million, Tom Clancey made $35 million, and James Patterson earned $50 million. Top on the list was J. K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame who Forbes estimates banked $300 million during the period.
• The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Ann Peacock has been signed to adapt John Grisham's 1997 bestseller The Partner into a screenplay. In The Partner, a young lawyer with a prominent Biloxi law firm is reportedly killed in a fiery car crash, but later watches from a distances as his casket, containing nothing but ashes, is buried. He's about ready to steal $90 million from his firm, covering his tracks all the way to Brazil. Four years later they find him, but the US Government is also interested in his whereabouts. Who really died in that car crash?
• In other film development news, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Overture Films has purchased the remake rights to the Icelandic thriller Jar City by Arnaldue Indridason featuring Reykjavik Inspector Erlendur. Myrin (the original Icelandic title of Jar City) was made into a movie of the same name in 2006, though it was never released in the US. In Jar City, Erlendur reopens a very cold case as he follows a trail of unusual forensic evidence, uncovering secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man.
• BroadcastNow provides a list of the winners of the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards held in London on October 3rd. Though the awards are intended for UK-based series, the last season of The Wire took the award for International Crime Drama of the Year. Four mystery authors were recognized: the late Stieg Larsson as International Author of the Year, Stuart MacBride as Breakthrough Author of the Year, Ian Rankin as Author of the Year, and Colin Dexter was given the Writer's Award for Classic TV Drama.
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