I know there are a lot of us who pretty much started our Cozy Mystery reading with the Nancy Drew mystery books. Because of this, I want to be sure to highlight that the Turner Classic Movie channel will be showing four of the very best Nancy Drew movies during April 2026. There have been different renditions of shows that have been based on the Nancy Drew novels, but as far as I’m concerned, these four movies come the closest to the novels.

On Wednesday, April 15, all four of the Nancy Drew movies starring Bonita Granville will be playing:

Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (1939)
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)

Bonita Granville, as far as I’m concerned, is the absolute best-ever Nancy Drew. She is exactly the way I remember Nancy being from all those delightful books I read so many years ago. Also, Frankie Thomas and John Litel are terrific as Nancy’s side-kick sleuth and her very patient father. I have seen these four movies several times before, and I will probably be watching them several times in the future.

***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – April 2026

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – April 2, 2026

6:00 AM Secret Enemies (1942)
The FBI tracks Nazi agents to a luxury hotel.
Dir: Benjamin Stoloff Cast: Faye Emerson, Craig Stevens, John Ridgely
57 mins

7:00 AM Don’t Talk (1942)
This Crime Does Not Pay series short focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime.
Dir: Joseph Newman. Cast: Donald Douglas, Gloria Holden, Barry Nelson
22 mins

9:00 AM Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet
80 mins

12:30 PM Above Suspicion (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
90 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – April 4, 2026

6:30 PM Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury
78 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – April 5, 2026

1:15 AM T-Men (1947)
U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
92 mins

10:00 AM T-Men (1947)
U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder
92 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – April 7, 2026

2:30 AM Blow-Up (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
111 mins

6:15 PM Marlowe (1969)
Detective Philip Marlowe probes the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a woman’s missing sister.
Dir: Paul Bogart. Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – April 8, 2026

6:00 AM Thirteen Women (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
60 mins

7:15 AM Decoy (1946)
A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
76 mins

8:45 AM Impact (1949)
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
Dir: Arthur Lubin. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
111 mins

10:45 AM Blonde Ice (1948)
A society reporter keeps herself in the headlines by marrying a series of wealthy men, all of whom die under mysterious circumstances.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent
74 mins

12:15 PM Tension (1949)
A man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
95 mins

2:00 PM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
101 mins

4:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

6:00 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
113 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – April 9, 2026

7:30 AM Postmark for Danger (1955)
When a journalist dies, his brother takes up his investigation of a smuggling ring.
Dir: Guy Green. Cast: Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester
78 mins

10:45 AM Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951)
The British sleuth comes out of retirement to help catch a band of thieves armed with military weapons.
Dir: Victor Saville. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty
79 mins

12:15 PM The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
68 mins

1:30 PM Sabotage (1936)
An unhappily married woman discovers her husband is an enemy agent.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester
76 mins

3:00 PM The Verdict (1946)
A retired Scotland Yard chief tries to prove his friend is innocent of murder.
Dir: Don Siege. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
86 mins

4:30 PM Green for Danger (1946)
A police inspector investigates an operating room death that may be murder.
Dir: Sidney Gilliat. Cast: Leo Genn, Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard
91 mins

6:15 PM Lured (1947)
A woman helps the police catch the serial killer who murdered her best friend.
Dir: Douglas Sirk. Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn
102 mins

10:00 PM No Country for Old Men (2007)
A poacher has to elude the Texas Rangers and the mob after stealing drug money.
Dir: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
122 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – April 11, 2026

12:45 AM Blood Simple (1984)
An owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Dir: Joel Coen. Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
95 mins

2:45 AM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America’s most feared and ruthless bank robbers.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
111 mins

4:45 AM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as “Doc” McCoy – a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison–in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust as he …
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

6:00 PM Dial M for Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
105 mins

8:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother’s death.
Dir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
112 mins

10:00 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – April 12, 2026

12:15 AM Bad Blonde (1953)
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg. Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater
81 mins

2:00 AM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

10:00 AM Bad Blonde (1953)
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg. Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater
81 mins

11:45 AM Shadow of a Woman (1946)
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
Dir: Joseph Santley. Cast: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince
78 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – April 13, 2026

8:00 PM Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – April 15, 2026

8:15 AM Code of the Secret Service (1939)
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
Dir: Noel Smith. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy Jr.
58 mins

9:15 AM Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
The Secret Service investigates a fleet of gambling ships.
Dir: Terry Morse. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Margot Stevenson, Eddie Foy Jr.
57 mins

10:15 AM Murder in the Air (1940)
A secret service agent fights to keep enemy spies away from top secret government plans.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys
55 mins

11:15 AM Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman’s disappearance.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson
60 mins

12:30 PM Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth sets out to prove a young girl innocent of murder charges.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frank Thomas Jr.
68 mins

1:45 PM Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth tries to clear one of her father’s friends of a murder charge.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
68 mins

3:00 PM Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth helps two old ladies deal with the “haunting” of their mansion.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
60 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – April 16, 2026

12:00 PM The Double Man (1967)
Russian secret service officials attempt to kidnap a CIA officer and replace him with a double of their own.
Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner. Cast: Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill
105 mins

2:00 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins

4:00 PM The Scapegoat (1959)
A man is tricked into trading places with a look-alike nobleman with murderous plans.
Dir: Robert Hamer. Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey
92 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – April 18, 2026

2:30 PM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins

10:15 PM Brief Encounter (1945)
Two married strangers meet in a train station and fall in love.
Dir: David Lean Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
86 mins
*****Not a mystery, but it’s a classic British movie.*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – April 19, 2026

12:00 AM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
122 mins

10:00 AM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
122 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – April 21, 2026

4:15 PM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray
120 mins

9:15 PM Confession (1937)
A glamorous singer commits murder to protect her daughter’s virtue.
Dir: Joe May. Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone
87 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – April 22, 2026

4:30 AM The House on 56th Street (1933)
A woman loses her family after being falsely convicted of a crime.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond
68 mins

6:00 AM The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart
87 mins

10:30 AM Borderline (1950)
A policewoman goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William A. Seiter. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Claire Trevor, Raymond Burr
88 mins

12:00 PM Born to Kill (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
92 mins

2:00 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

4:00 PM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – April 24, 2026

8:00 PM Boxcar Bertha (1972)
A union leader enlists his girlfriend in a plot to get back at the railroad’s evil management.
Dir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus
88 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – April 25, 2026

2:15 AM Stakeout on Dope Street (1958)
Three teens get into the drug business when they discover heroin in a stolen briefcase.
Dir: Irvin Kershner. Cast: Yale Wexler, Morris Miller, Jonathon Haze
83 mins

11:30 AM Easy Life (1944)
A high school dropout finds that leading a life of crime is not all he thought it would be.
Dir: Walter Hart. Cast: William “Bill” Phillips, William Tannen, James Warren
20 mins

2:00 PM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
87 mins

3:45 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croydon
129 mins

8:00 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

10:15 PM Murder, He Says (1945)
A pollster stumbles on a family of small-town killers.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
91 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – April 26, 2026

12:00 AM 711 Ocean Drive (1950)
A telephone repairman gets mixed up with illegal gambling.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger
102 mins

2:00 AM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

6:00 AM The Big Shot (1942)
Fearing life in prison for a fourth offense, convict Duke Berne pulls out of an armored car robbery, planned by his crooked lawyer, but he is framed for the robbery anyway.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis
82 mins

10:00 AM 711 Ocean Drive (1950)
A telephone repairman gets mixed up with illegal gambling.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger
102 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – April 28, 2026

11:00 AM Out of the Fog (1941)
A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman’s daughter.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell
85 mins

12:45 PM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – April 29, 2026

12:00 AM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
107 mins

6:00 AM Stronger Than Desire (1939)
A lawyer’s wife keeps mum as her husband defends an innocent woman for the crime she committed.
Dir: Leslie Fenton. Cast: Virginia Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, Lee Bowman
78 mins

7:30 AM The Witness Chair (1936)
A woman lets her lover stand trial for the murder she committed.
Dir: George Nicholls Jr. Cast: Ann Harding, Walter Abel, Douglass Dumbrille
64 mins

8:45 AM Midnight Alibi (1934)
An elderly recluse shelters a gambler on the run from bogus murder charges.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler
60 mins

10:00 AM Confession (1937)
A glamorous singer commits murder to protect her daughter’s virtue.
Dir: Joe May. Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone
87 mins

11:45 AM A Criminal Is Born (1938)
This short film tells the story of how a young man starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Dir: Leslie Fenton. Cast: Dave Durand, Norman Phillips Jr., Dorothy Vaughan
20 mins

12:15 PM Criminal Court (1946)
An unorthodox lawyer accidentally kills a crooked nightclub owner, only to discover that his cabaret singer sweetheart has been arrested for the crime.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, June Clayworth
63 mins

1:30 PM Criminal Lawyer (1951)
An alcoholic lawyer sobers up to defend his friend in a murder case.
Dir: Seymour Friedman. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Jane Wyatt, Carl Benton Reid
74 mins:

4:30 PM Count the Hours! (1953)
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran
76 mins

6:00 PM Trial (1955)
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – April 30, 2026

3:45 PM The Unfaithful (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
109 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in April, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the March television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2026 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.