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Even More Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2017!

I forgot to include some mystery-type of things that are going on at the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel when I sent out the Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2017 entry. So here goes!

I could be wrong (perhaps it happened earlier and I just didn’t notice) but the television mystery series, Father Dowling Mysteries (aka Father Dowling Investigates), will begin airing on this channel during January. Hallmark M & M describes the series as “An amiable, inquisitive Chicago priest moonlights as a detective and is assisted by a rather worldly, lock-picking nun.”

The show is loosely based on Ralph McInerny‘s Father Dowling Mystery Series of books. It stars Tom Bosley (Father Frank Dowling) and Tracy Nelson (Sister Steve – short for Stephanie – Oskowski) and ran in the late 1980s.

Also, be sure to mark your television-watching/recording calendars for these new mystery movies:

Sunday – January 8, 2017
Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder *****PREMIER*****
When Hanna’s sorority sister’s stepmother is found dead, it appears she fell, hitting her head against a pipe. Following the memorial service, Hannah and Abbey go to Jenn. Abbey thinks that something is amiss. The facts surrounding the death are troublesome. Jenn gets involved and – as always – uncovers the truth and brings the killer to justice. Stars Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange and Steve Bacic.

Sunday – January 15, 2017
Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery *****PREMIER*****
In the small resort town of Lighthouse Cove, everyone knows that the best man for the job is a woman. And that woman is Shannon Hammer, owner of Hammer Construction Company and an expert in Victorian home restoration and renovation. Through her renovations she will find clues to uncover the house’s secret past and in turn become an unlikely sleuth to help crack these unsolved mysteries. Stars Jewel, Colin Ferguson and Laura Soltis.

(I’ve already set up my DVR to record both of them.)

Sunday, January 22 doesn’t have a mystery movie premier and I’ll try to see of Sunday, January 29 does when Hallmark M & M finally updates its schedule.

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2017

It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies!

As usual, I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries that I think are definitely worth looking at (in addition to some others from my favorite actors and actresses…) This month, we can look forward to an Alfred Hitchcock marathon on the 1st! Since he has a number of mystery themed movies (as well as many non-mystery classics), I’m certainly looking forward to it!

Another date worth remembering is the 20th, when TCM will be showing a “The Saint” mystery marathon, adapted of course from the works of classic mystery author Leslie Charteris!

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

January 2017 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Sunday – January 1, 2017

5:00 AM
ROPE (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger.
C-81 mins, CC

6:30 AM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
BW-101 mins, CC

8:15 AM
TORN CURTAIN (1966)
A U.S. scientist pretends to defect to follow his mentor behind the Iron Curtain.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova.
C-128 mins, CC

10:30 AM
FAMILY PLOT (1976)
A phony psychic takes on a pair of kidnappers.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris.
C-120 mins, CC

12:30 PM
PSYCHO (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin.
BW-109 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

4:45 PM
THE BIRDS (1963)
In a California coastal area, flocks of birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy.
C-119 mins, CC,

7:00 PM
VERTIGO (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
C-130 mins, CC

9:15 PM
REAR WINDOW (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey.
C-114 mins, CC

11:15 PM
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey.
BW-108 mins, CC

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

Monday – January 2, 2017

1:15 AM
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie.
C-120 mins, CC

3:30 AM
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick.
C-99 mins, CC

5:15 AM
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.
BW-67 mins, CC

6:30 AM
SCARED TO DEATH (1947)
A beautiful murder victim recalls how she met her untimely end.
Dir: Christy Cabanne Cast:  Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton.
C-68 mins

7:45 AM
BEWITCHED (1945)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Dir: Arch Oboler Cast:  Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Thaxter, Harry H. Daniels Jr..
BW-65 mins, CC

9:00 AM
THE DARK TOWER (1943)
A romantic triangle involving a hypnotist and two trapeze artists threatens to destroy a circus.
Dir: John Harlow Cast:  Herbert Lom,
BW-93 mins, CC

2:00 PM
FINGERS AT THE WINDOW (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer Cast:  Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone.
BW-81 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – January 3, 2017

4:30 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.
C-105 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – January 4, 2017

3:30 AM
EACH DAWN I DIE (1939)
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
Dir: William Keighley Cast:  James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan.
BW-92 mins, CC

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

Thursday – January 5, 2017

8:15 PM
TORCHY PLAYS WITH DYNAMITE (1939)
A female reporter gets herself arrested so she can interview a gangster’s moll.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast:  Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy.
BW-59 mins, CC

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

Friday – January 6, 2017

3:45 AM
GAMBLING ON THE HIGH SEAS (1940)
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Dir: George Amy Cast:  Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland.
BW-55 mins, CC

6:00 AM
PRIVATE DETECTIVE (1939)
Rival detectives fall in love when they’re forced to work together.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast:  Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson.
BW-56 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976)
Sherlock Holmes seeks psychiatric help from Sigmund Freud and gets caught up in mystery.
Dir: Herbert Ross Cast:  Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall.
C-113 mins, CC

9:00 PM
AGATHA (1979)
A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie.
Dir: Michael Apted Cast:  Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton.
C-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – January 7, 2017

3:00 AM
A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (1969)
A beautiful ghost inspires a painter to commit murder.
Dir: Elio Petri Cast:  Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret.
C-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 AM
COVER-UP (1949)
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Dir: Alfred E. Green Cast:  William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton.
BW-83 mins

11:00 AM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW-100 mins, CC

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

Monday – January 9, 2017

8:15 PM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW-91 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – January 10, 2017

7:30 AM
DECEPTION (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast:  Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains.
BW-112 mins, CC,

1:45 PM
HOLLOW TRIUMPH (1948)
A crook on the lam poses as a psychiatrist.
Dir: Steve Sekely Cast:  Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz.
BW-83 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – January 11, 2017

3:45 AM
CONVICTS 4 (1962)
A convicted killer discovers a talent for art while behind bars.
Dir: Millard Kaufman Cast:  Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston.
BW-106 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
PSYCHO (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin.
BW-109 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
THE KILLERS (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast:  Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien.
BW-102 mins, CC

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

Thursday – January 12, 2017

11:30 AM
THE EX-MRS. BRADFORD (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts Cast:  William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason.
BW-81 mins, CC

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

Friday – January 13, 2017

3:15 AM
STAGE FRIGHT (1950)
An acting student goes undercover to prove a singing star killed her husband.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding.
BW-110 mins, CC

5:15 AM
CRIME BY NIGHT (1944)
Married detectives investigating a small-town murder uncover a spy ring.
Dir: William Clemens Cast:  Jane Wyman, Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson.
BW-73 mins, CC

5:00 PM
WHEN WERE YOU BORN? (1938)
An astrologer tries to help the police catch a killer.
Dir: William McGann Cast:  Margaret Lindsay, Anna May Wong, Lola Lane.
BW-65 mins

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

Saturday – January 14, 2017

7:00 AM
NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1940)
True story of Rogers’ Rangers and their fight to open up new frontiers for Colonial America.
Dir: King Vidor Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan, Robert Young.
C-127 mins, CC

7:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast:  Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
C-110 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – January 15, 2017

2:30 PM
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast:  Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders.
BW-138 mins, CC

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

Friday – January 20, 2017

4:30 AM
MAKE YOUR OWN BED (1944)
Detectives masquerade as butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning.
BW-82 mins

7:00 PM
THE SAINT IN NEW YORK (1938)
The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
Dir: Ben Holmes Cast:  Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann.
BW-72 mins, CC

8:30 PM
THE SAINT STRIKES BACK (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir: John Farrow Cast:  George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan.
BW-64 mins, CC

9:45 PM
THE SAINT IN LONDON (1939)
The Saint’s investigation of a counterfeiting ring uncovers a nest of spies.
Dir: John Paddy Carstairs Cast:  George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns.
BW-72 mins, CC

11:15 PM
THE SAINT’S DOUBLE TROUBLE (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast:  George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale.
BW-67 mins, CC

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

Saturday – January 21, 2017

12:30 AM
THE SAINT IN PALM SPRINGS (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively Cast:  George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle.
BW-66 mins, CC

1:45 AM
THE SAINT’S VACATION (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar vies with Nazi agents for possession of a mysterious music box.
Dir: Leslie Fenton Cast:  Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae.
BW-61 mins, CC

3:00 AM
THE SAINT MEETS THE TIGER (1943)
The Saint infiltrates a small English village run by smugglers.
Dir: Paul Stein Cast:  Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod.
BW-69 mins, CC

7:00 PM
BOOMERANG (1947)
A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast:  Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb.
BW-88 mins, CC

8:45 PM
FALLEN ANGEL (1945)
A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife’s money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast:  Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell.
BW-97 mins, CC

10:30 PM
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders.
BW-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – January 22, 2017

12:15 AM
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast:  Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.
BW-80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

3:15 PM
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast:  Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley.
BW-96 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
In the first Inspector Clouseau film, the bumbling French police detective tries to stop a notorious jewel thief from nabbing a princess’ diamond.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast:  David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine.
C-115 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)
Inspector Clouseau tries to clear a beautiful woman accused of shooting her husband.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast:  Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders.
C-102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – January 23, 2017

11:00 PM
ODD MAN OUT (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast:  James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan.
BW-116 mins

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

Tuesday – January 24, 2017

3:15 AM
THEY MET IN THE DARK (1943)
A naval commander tries to find the beautiful spy who tricked him into revealing secrets.
Dir: Carl Lamac Cast:  James Mason,
BW-91 mins

7:15 AM
LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor Cast:  Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge.
BW-90 mins, CC

9:00 AM
SCARF (1951)
An escaped mental patient tries to prove he’s not a serial killer.
Dir: E. A. Dupont Cast:  John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton.
BW-87 mins

8:45 PM
HOUSE OF WOMEN (1962)
A young woman is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years.
Dir: Walter Doniger Cast:  Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford.
BW-85 mins, CC

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

Thursday – January 26, 2017

4:45 PM
COME ON DANGER (1942)
When a woman turns outlaw, she’s suspected of murder.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast:  Tim Holt, Frances Neal, Ray Whitley.
BW-59 mins

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

Saturday – January 28, 2017

11:00 AM
DIARY OF A MADMAN (1963)
The body of a French magistrate is taken over by the soul of a murderer.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg Cast:  Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield.
C-97 mins, Letterbox Format

7:00 PM
THE LATE SHOW (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton Cast:  Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
C-93 mins, CC

8:45 PM
THE PLAYER (1992)
A rising producer tries to cover up the accidental killing of a screenwriter who was stalking him.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast:  Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward.
C-124 mins, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – January 29, 2017

2:00 PM
GILDA (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor Cast:  Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready.
BW-110 mins, CC

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

Monday – January 30, 2017

10:00 AM
ESCAPE IN THE DESERT (1945)
In this remake of The Petrified Forest, Nazi spies infiltrate a hotel in the American Southwest.
Dir: Edward A. Blatt Cast:  Jean Sullivan, Philip Dorn, Irene Manning.
BW-79 mins

1:15 PM
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.
BW-78 mins

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

If you’re particularly looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in January, 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 December 2016 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2016

And of course, 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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2016

It’s the time of the month again to find out about next month’s upcoming mystery movies!

As usual, I’m posting the Turner Classic Movies channel mysteries that I think are definitely worth looking at (in addition to some others from my favorite actors and actresses…) In particular, there is a Thin Man marathon on Friday the 23rd, into the early morning of Saturday the 24th. Some of you have mentioned that you watch the Thin Man movies on New Year’s Eve – so set up your DVRs!

Since this will be December and TCM will be showing a lot of Christmas movies, I’ve also decided to include a bunch of those on this list >>> at least the ones I intend to watch again!

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December 2016 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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

Thursday – December 1, 2016

7:00 PM
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1941) (Christmas)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast:  Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
BW-113 mins, CC

9:00 PM
IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)  (Christmas)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast:  Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles.
BW-115 mins, CC

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

Friday – December 2, 2016

5:15 AM
THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland Cast:  Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins.
BW-74 mins, CC

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

Saturday – December 3, 2016

3:15 AM
TRADE WINDS (1938)
A private eye falls for the murderess he’s pursuing.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast:  Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy.
BW-94 mins, CC

6:30 AM
PHANTOM LADY (1944)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect’s only alibi for the night of his wife’s death.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast:  Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis.
BW-87 mins

10:15 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.
BW-103 mins

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

Sunday – December 4, 2016

8:30 AM
A CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS (1964) (Christmas)
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast:  Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara.
BW-86 mins, CC

10:00 AM
LITTLE WOMEN (1933) (Christmas)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor Cast:  Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas.
BW-116 mins, CC

1:15 PM
CAPE FEAR (1962)
An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast:  Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
BW-106 mins, CC
*****Yow-zee!*****

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

Friday – December 9, 2016

3:45 AM
21 DAYS (1940)
After accidentally killing his mistress’ husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
Dir: Basil Dean Cast:  Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier.
BW-75 mins

7:45 AM
THE WIDOW FROM CHICAGO (1930)
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother’s death.
Dir: Edward Cline Cast:  Alice White, Neil Hamilton, Edward G. Robinson.
BW-62 mins

11:30 PM
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.
C-60 mins, CC

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

Saturday – December 10, 2016

1:45 AM
PENTHOUSE (1933)
The mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl’s help in finding the real killer.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast:  Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth.
BW-89 mins, CC

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

Sunday – December 11, 2016

5:00 AM
ALIAS BOSTON BLACKIE (1942)
A reformed thief tracks down an escaped convict so he can prove the man is innocent.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast:  Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane.
BW-67 mins, CC

7:45 AM
SCROOGE (1935) (Christmas)
The legendary miser searches his past, present and future to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Dir: Henry Edwards Cast:  Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Maurice Evans.
BW-78 mins

11:15 AM
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949) (Christmas)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
BW-87 mins, CC

1:00 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) (Christmas)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-101 mins, CC
*****My favorite Christmas movie! I’m glad TCM is playing it three times this month.*****

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

Monday – December 12, 2016

7:00 PM
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) (Christmas)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast:  Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor.
C-113 mins, CC

9:00 PM
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (1949) (Christmas)
In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast:  Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall.
C-103 mins, CC
*****Actually, the guide says this is a Christmas movie, but I am not sure. I know The Shop Around the Corner is set during the holidays, but I just can’t remember about this one.****

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

Tuesday – December 13, 2016

12:15 AM
BACHELOR MOTHER (1939) (Christmas)
A fun-loving shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Garson Kanin Cast:  Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn.
BW-82 mins, CC

1:45 AM
BUNDLE OF JOY (1956) (Christmas)
A shop girl is mistaken for the mother of a foundling.
Dir: Norman Taurog Cast:  Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou.
C-98 mins, CC

12:15 PM
ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast:  Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh.
BW-82 mins, CC

1:45 PM
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott.
BW-115 mins, CC
*****This is another terrific Barbara Stanwyck movie.*****

3:45 PM
THE PROWLER (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey Cast:  Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell.
BW-93 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – December 14, 2016

6:00 AM
ALCATRAZ ISLAND (1937)
A prison inmate is framed for killing a con who once tried to kidnap his daughter.
Dir: William McGann Cast:  Ann Sheridan, John Litel, Mary Maguire.
BW-63 mins, CC

9:30 AM
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN (1938)
An insurance man tangles with a fraud ring.
Dir: William Clemens Cast:  Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell.
BW-62 mins, CC

12:00 PM
MYSTERY HOUSE (1938)
A detective tries to solve a murder in a house full of suspects.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast:  Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel.
BW-57 mins

1:00 PM
OVER THE WALL (1938)
A prison chaplain tries to help a man framed for murder prove his innocence.
Dir: Frank MacDonald Cast:  Dick Foran, June Travis, John Litel.
BW-67 mins

2:15 PM
BLACKWELL’S ISLAND (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Dir: William McGann Cast:  John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell.
BW-71 mins, CC

7:00 PM
SUDDEN FEAR (1952)
An ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged woman, then plots with his mistress to murder her.
Dir: David Miller Cast:  Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame.
BW-110 mins

9:00 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.
C-105 mins, CC

11:00 PM
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (1947)
A woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith.
BW-99 mins, CC

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

Thursday – December 15, 2016

3:00 AM
THE STRANGER (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles Cast:  Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles.
BW-95 mins, CC

9:15 AM
THE RIGHT TO LIVE (1935)
A crippled war hero’s death turns out to be murder.
Dir: William Keighley Cast:  Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, Colin Clive.
BW-69 mins

7:00 PM
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) (Christmas)
Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast:  Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
BW-99 mins, CC
*****Terrific Christmas movie.*****

9:00 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) (Christmas)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-101 mins, CC
*****My favorite Christmas movie! I’m glad TCM is playing it three times this month.*****

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

Saturday – December 17, 2016

5:45 AM
LOVE LETTERS (1945)
A soldier falls for the woman who may have killed his best friend.
Dir: William Dieterle Cast:  Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards.
BW-101 mins, CC

3:00 PM
BORN YESTERDAY (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor Cast:  Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
BW-102 mins, CC
*****If you haven’t already seen this movie, make an effort to try to watch it!Not a mystery.*****

5:00 PM
SEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964)
When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast:  Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-100 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****Ditto what I wrote about the movie above this one! Not a mystery.*****

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

Sunday – December 18, 2016

3:15 AM
ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1977)
When people in an Italian-American neighborhood are murdered, suspicion falls on a lonely 12-year-old.
Dir: Alfred Sole Cast:  Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula Sheppard.
C-105 mins, CC

5:00 AM
BACKFIRE (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast:  Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo.
BW-91 mins, CC

8:00 AM
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938) (Christmas)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast:  Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
BW-69 mins, CC

11:00 AM
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (1949) (Christmas)
In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast:  Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall.
C-103 mins, CC
*****I’m really not sure if this is a Christmas movie or not. The TCM guide says it is…*****

7:00 PM
SCROOGE (1970) (Christmas)
A miser faces the ghosts of his past on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast:  Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans.
C-114 mins, CC

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

Monday – December 19, 2016

5:00 AM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW-91 mins, CC

6:45 AM
BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952)
A widow discovers her handyman is an escaped mental patient.
Dir: Harry Horner Cast:  Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes.
BW-77 mins, CC

8:15 AM
CONFLICT (1945)
A man murders his wife so he can be free to marry her sister.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-85 mins, CC

9:45 AM
DARK PASSAGE (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett.
BW-106 mins, CC

11:45 AM
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.
BW-95 mins, CC

1:30 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.
BW-109 mins

3:30 PM
PHANTOM LADY (1944)
A mystery woman is a murder suspect’s only alibi for the night of his wife’s death.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast:  Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis.
BW-87 mins

5:00 PM
CAPE FEAR (1962)
An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast:  Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
BW-106 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – December 20, 2016

8:30 AM
THE SECRET OF MADAME BLANCHE (1933)
A murder brings together a woman and the son she was forced to give up years earlier.
Dir: Charles Brabin Cast:  Irene Dunne, Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes.
BW-84 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – December 21, 2016

5:00 AM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW-97 mins, CC

6:45 AM
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.
BW-92 mins, CC

8:30 AM
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.
C-105 mins, CC

11:00 AM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast:  Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
BW-113 mins, CC

1:00 PM
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast:  Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson.
BW-108 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THE BIG SLEEP (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely.
BW-114 mins, CC

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

Thursday – December 22, 2016

7:30 AM
BARRICADE (1950)
Two fugitives try to prove the head of a mining camp is a murderer.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Ruth Roman.
C-75 mins

9:00 AM
LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor Cast:  Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge.
BW-90 mins

10:45 AM
MARA MARU (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast:  Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr.
BW-98 mins

3:45 PM
THE WINDOW (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast:  Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
BW-73 mins, CC

5:00 PM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
BW-101 mins, CC

7:00 PM
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949) (Christmas)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
BW-87 mins, CC

8:45 PM
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) (Christmas)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi.
BW-94 mins, CC
*****This is another Christmas movie that I love watching.*****

10:30 PM
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951) (Christmas)
Ghosts visit a miser during the holidays to teach him the errors of his ways.
Dir: Brian Desmond-Hurst Cast:  Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns.
BW-86 mins, CC

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

Friday – December 23, 2016

5:00 AM
EVELYN PRENTICE (1934)
A criminal lawyer’s wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.
Dir: William K. Howard Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel.
BW-79 mins, CC

7:00 PM
THE THIN MAN (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW-91 mins, CC

8:45 PM
AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
BW-112 mins, CC

10:45 PM
ANOTHER THIN MAN (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey.
BW-103 mins, CC

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

Saturday – December 24, 2016

12:45 AM
SHADOW OF THE THIN MAN (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson.
BW-97 mins, CC

2:30 AM
THE THIN MAN GOES HOME (1945)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson.
BW-101 mins, CC

4:15 AM
SONG OF THE THIN MAN (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell Cast:  William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn.
BW-87 mins, CC

9:15 AM
SCROOGE (1970) (Christmas)
A miser faces the ghosts of his past on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast:  Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans.
C-114 mins, CC

11:15 AM
IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947) (Christmas)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast:  Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charlie Ruggles.
BW-115 mins, CC

1:15 PM
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949) (Christmas)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
BW-87 mins, CC

3:00 PM
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) (Christmas)
Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Cast:  Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
BW-99 mins, CC

5:00 PM
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) (Christmas)
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast:  Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor.
C-113 mins, CC

7:00 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) (Christmas)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-101 mins, CC
*****My favorite Christmas movie! I’m glad TCM is playing it three times this month.*****

11:00 PM
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (1949) (Christmas?)
In this musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner, feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard Cast:  Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall.
C-103 mins, CC

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

Sunday – December 25, 2016

1:00 AM
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1941) (Christmas)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast:  Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
BW-113 mins, CC

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

Tuesday – December 27, 2016

5:00 AM
ACROSS THE PACIFIC (1942)
An American agent tries to keep Axis spies from blowing up the Panama Canal.
Dir: John Huston Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet.
C-96 mins, CC

10:00 AM
THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast:  Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-109 mins, CC

5:15 PM
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast:  Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW-100 mins, CC

7:00 PM
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
A young man about to be married discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast:  Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey.
BW-118 mins, CC

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

Wednesday – December 28, 2016

6:45 AM
ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1952)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry’s blind sister.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast:  Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond.
BW-82 mins, CC

10:00 AM
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW-105 mins, CC

4:30 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast:  Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C-136 mins, CC

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

Thursday – December 29, 2016

3:00 AM
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (1945)
Guests at a remote island mansion realize a crazed killer is stalking them.
Dir: René Clair Cast:  Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward.
BW-97 mins, CC

9:30 AM
THE BIG STEAL (1949)
Seduction and murder follow the theft of an Army payroll.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix.
BW-71 mins, CC

11:00 AM
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges Cast:  Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis.
C-81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

2:45 PM
BULLITT (1968)
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast:  Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C-114 mins, CC

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

Friday – December 30, 2016

7:00 PM
MIDNIGHT LACE (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller Cast:  Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin.
C-108 mins, Letterbox Format

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in December, 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 November 2016 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for November 2016

Also, if you’re looking for the new Hallmark Christmas movies that will be showing during December 2016, be sure to click this link which will take you to my Hallmark 2016 Christmas movies schedule.

And of course, 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

ID Channel’s Nightmare Next Door with Diane Vallere

tv1111111111sphjsjhI think I may have mentioned (once or twice…) that I like true crime shows. (I don’t watch all of them – that would be a 24/7 hobby!) As I watch the shows I find myself in a state of disbelief that these are true crimes – not fiction TV. I can’t help but imagine how these awful, cruel things can be carried out by people. The results are so profound and permanent for the victims, and their family and friends >>> whose lives will never be the same. I often find myself wondering how stupid and self-aggrandizing these terrible animals are. When I hear a person say these killers are “sick” I usually find myself actually talking back to the TV. Sick is NO excuse for their actions! (OK, now I’ll get off my soapbox and get to why I am telling you about a show I just watched…) The particular show I’m telling you about is very sad and totally senseless. (Let’s face it, all of the cases they highlight are senseless!)

One of the shows I watch on the ID (Investigation Discovery) channel is Nightmare Next Door. Well, while I was watching last night’s episode (“A Strange Trust” – season 6, episode 10), I couldn’t believe it when one of my favorite authors appeared as one of the commentators of the crime. That’s right! One of our Cozy Mystery authors was on the show giving background information!

So, for those of you who have access to the ID channel, be sure to set your DVRs up in order to see none other than Diane Vallere, author of the Style & Error, Material Witness, Costume Shop, & Mad for Mod (one of my very favorite) mystery series. The next showing of this particular show is Sunday, November 13 at 1 PM (central).

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