The marketing of Dark Shadows is beginning to ramp up! Earlier this month we featured a film poster, character posters, and the first trailer. Now we have the first television commercial (embedded below), which clearly plays up the comedic elements of the film.
Based on the late 1960s television show of the same title, Dark Shadows stars Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas Collins, who is freed from his 18th century tomb in 1972 to find the world in the 20th century a very strange place indeed. It is directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith and opens in theaters May 11th, 2012.
Monday, March 26, 2012
First TV Spot for Dark Shadows
Four New George Gently Episodes Commissioned by BBC
BBC has commissioned a new series of four 90-minute episodes of George Gently.
Martin Shaw stars as the police inspector in this crime drama set in Northumberland in the late 1960s. Lee Ingleby plays his sidekick DS John Bacchus.
Writer Peter Flannery says, "Gently and Bacchus return to my home turf of Durham and Northumberland with plenty more murders and cases to solve. It's 1968 and there are huge changes taking place in society, and hopefully our series continues to give a real portrait of the age."
The character is based on one created by crime novelist Alan Hunter, who featured the Detective Inspector in a long-running series of mysteries published from 1955 through 1999.
Filming has begun on location with the episodes expected to air on BBC One later this year.
(Souce: Press release.)
The Long Fall by Lynn Kostoff is Today's Featured Free MystereBook
MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Long Fall by Lynn Kostoff as today's free mystery ebook.
This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.
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The Long Fall by Lynn Kostoff
Publisher: Tyrus Books
About The Long Fall (from the publisher): In sunbaked Phoenix, Arizona, this never-predictable tale tosses into its antic mix a dead father, his two sons—one a small-time ex-con with a consistent genius for sabotaging his own best interests, the other a straight, uptight solid citizen with a moneymaking chain of dry-cleaning stores and a restive ex-stewardess of a wife named Evelyn—and a sicko cop with a twisted worldview. Recently released from prison—twenty-four months for possession of a truckload of black-market saguaro cacti—and in deep debt to an unforgiving crank dealer, Jimmy Coates returns home only to discover that his brother has cut him out of his inheritance. A not-unjustifiable desire to settle old scores and new sends Jimmy on a robbery spree that wipes out four of his brother's dry-cleaning establishments. But when he finds himself tumbling for a mutinously sexy Evelyn, the impulse to vengeance reverses itself. Unwittingly, however, Jimmy has already set in motion a series of dangerous consequences—adultery, blackmail, love, betrayal—that culminate in a blueprint for murder. And it could be Jimmy himself who is taking the long fall.
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Mystery Godoku Puzzle for March 26, 2012
A new Mystery Godoku Puzzle has been created by the editors of the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and is now available on our website.
Godoku is similar to Sudoku, but uses letters instead of numbers. To give you a headstart, we provide you a mystery clue to fill in a complete row or column (if you choose to use it!).
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This week's letters and mystery clue:
E G H I O R S T U
A covert plot to overthrow a church’s leaders is the premise of this 2012 thriller by Michael Wallace (with "The", 9 letters).
We now have two weeks of our puzzles on one page in PDF format for easier printing. Print this week's puzzle here.
Previous puzzles are stored in the Mystery Godoku Archives.
Enjoy the weekly Mystery Godoku Puzzle from the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books, and Thanks for visiting our website!
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Review: Poison Flower by Thomas Perry
We've just published our Review of Poison Flower by Thomas Perry. A Jane Whitefield Mystery. Mysterious Press Hardcover, March 2012.
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Colin Farrell turns in a terrific performance in this adaptation of Ken Bruen's crime novel that has too many subplots, too many characters, and too little continuity. I enjoyed Farrell's character, a man torn between two worlds and the various conflicts he faces in each. But pretty much everything, and everyone, else should have been rewritten and/or recast.
Read the full text of our review at Mr. E. Reviews London Boulevard.
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Mr. E. Reviews is your source for mystery, suspense, thriller, and crime drama reviews of television and film.
Poisoned Pen Press's 99 Cent eBook Sale Ends March 31st
If you haven't already taken advantage of Poisoned Pen Press's March ebook promotion, you only have until the end of March 2012 to do so. This specialty publisher of crime novels is offering 11 of its titles, all but one first in series, for just 99 cents each.
We've had the pleasure of reading and reviewing over half of these; click on the 
Important Note: The titles listed below are expected to be available for 99 cents through March 31st, 2012. But … Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the prices of the books before completing your transaction.
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Charles Benoit
Kathleen Hills
Series: A John McIntire Mystery (1st in series)
Ed Ifkovic
Series: An Edna Ferber Mystery (1st in series)
Larry Karp
Series: A Scott Joplin Ragtime Mystery (1st in series)
Ken Kuhlken
Series: A Hickey Family Mystery (1st in series)
K. J. Larsen
Series: A Cat DeLuca Mystery (1st in series)
Ann Littlewood
Series: An Iris Oakley Mystery (1st in series)
Peter May
Series: An Enzo Macleod Mystery (1st in series); originally published as Extraordinary People
Jeffrey Siger
Series: An Andreas Kaldis Mystery (1st in series)
Clea Simon
Series: A Theda Krakow Mystery (1st in series)
Richard A. Thompson
Series: A Herman Jackson Mystery (1st in series)
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