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August 2013 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in August 2013:

Laurien Berenson: Gone with the Woof (This will be the 16th in the Melanie Travis Mystery Series.)

Gail Bowen: The Gifted (This will be the 14th in the Joanne Kilbourn Mystery Series.)

Rhys Bowen: Heirs and Graces (This will be the 7th in the Royal Spyness Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Remnants of Murder (This will be the 8th in the Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series.)

Erika Chase: Cover Story (This will be the 3rd in the Ashton Corners Mystery Series.)

Alys Clare: Land of the Silver Dragon (This will be the 5th in the Aelf Fen Mystery Series.)

Barbara Cleverly: A Spider in the Cup (This will be the 11th in the Joe Sandilands Mystery Series.)

Kate Collins: Seed No Evil (This will be the 14th in the Flower Shop Mystery Series.) (This is a wedding theme mystery.)

Bill Crider: Compound Murder (This will be the 20th in the Dan Rhodes Mystery Series.)

Diane Mott Davidson: The Whole Enchilada (This will be the 17th in the Goldy Bear Mystery Series.)

Carole Nelson Douglas: Cat in an Alien X-Ray (This will be the 25th in the Midnight Louie Mystery Series.)

Shelley Freydont: Cold Turkey (This will be a Novella in the Celebration Bay Mystery Series.) (This is a Thanksgiving theme mystery.)

David Handler: Runaway Man (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Faye Kellerman: The Beast (This will be the 21st in the Decker & Lazarus Mystery Series.)

William Kent Krueger: Tamarack County (This will be the 13th in the Cork O’Connor Mystery Series.)

Amanda Lee (aka Gayle Trent): Cross-Stitch before Dying (This will be the 6th in the Embroidery Mystery Series.)

Nancy Martin: Little Black Book of Murder (This will be the 9th in the Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series.)

Jenn McKinlay (aka Lucy Lawrence & Josie Belle): Cloche and Dagger (This will be the 1st in the NEW Hat Shop Mystery Series.)

Sharon Pape:  Alibis and Amethysts (This will be the 1st in the NEW Crystal Shop Mystery Series.

James Patterson & David Ellis: Mistress (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Louise Penny: How the Light Gets In (This will be the 9th in the Armand Gamache Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Kathy Reichs: Bones of the Lost (This will be the 16th in the Temperance Brennan Mystery Series.)

Delia Rosen: From Herring to Eternity (This will be the 4th in the Deadly Deli Mystery Series.)

Maggie Sefton: Poisoned Politics (This will be the 2nd in the Molly Malone Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: If Bread Could Rise to the Occasion (This will be the 3rd in the Country Cooking School Mystery Series.)

Marcia Talley: Dark Passage (This will be the 12th in the Hannah Ives Mystery Series.) (Actually, September 1.)

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Tragic (This will be the 26th in the Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery Series.)

Charles Todd: A Question of Honor (This will be the 5th in the Bess Crawford Mystery Series.)

Lauren Willig: The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (This will be the 10th in the Pink Carnation Mystery Series.)

To go back to the Cozy Mystery New Book Release page, click here.

Senior Sleuth Traveler with Young Companion…

Here’s a question that Ann H posed in one of her comments:

“Help, please! I found an American cozy – an older, retired female sleuth who travels around the country solving mysteries. Along the way she picked up a younger woman who now accompanies her. Like a dummy I did not write down the author’s name or even the heroine’s. I truly enjoyed the first one. It also reminded me of one about an older woman who has a mobile home and travels in the West. Can’t remember names for that one either….. Thanks if you can give me some help (and even if you cannot). “

Linda C pointed out that the mystery series with the older woman in an RV is by Sue Henry (the Maxie & Stretch Mystery Series) but we still don’t know who the other retired woman is.

Do any of you know? If you do, please post a comment. Thank you!

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 2013

Let’s take a look and see what old, black and white mystery movies will be airing this month. I am an avid fan of old movies, and the TCM channel seems to be the network that I find most of them playing.

Here is the list of the upcoming television mystery movies that I have been able to find which will air on the Turner Classic Movie channel (TCM). (I go through my TCM Now Playing guide to find them.)

As usual, I must tell you that I have not seen all of the movies on this list, so I can’t vouch for all of them. Also, since I live in the Central time zone, it’s just easier for me to list them in that time frame. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during July 2013, please post a comment.

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

Wednesday – July 3, 2013

CHANDLER (1971)  4:45 PM (Central)
A former private eye lands in hot water when he agrees to protect a government witness.
Dir: Paul Magwood Cast: Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Alex Dreier.
C-86 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – July 4, 2013

THE SCARLET COAT (1955)  8:45 AM (Central)
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders
C-101 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – July 5, 2013

SH! THE OCTOPUS (1937)  5:15 AM (Central)
Daffy detectives fight off a giant octopus in a haunted lighthouse.
Dir: William McGann Cast: Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Marcia Ralston
BW-54 mins, TV-G
(Hmmm >>> The word “daffy” in TCM’s description might not be such a good thing. We’ll see…)

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

Saturday – July 6, 2013

THE FALCON IN SAN FRANCISCO (1945)  9:45 AM (Central)
A society sleuth enlists a little girl’s help in nabbing a mob of silk smugglers.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward S. Brophy
BW-66 mins, TV-G

THE BAD SEED (1956)  11:00 PM (Central)
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
C-129 mins, TV-PG, CC
(I don’t know if this one really qualifies as a mystery, but it’s doggone good!)

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

Tuesday – July 9, 2013

THE BIG HEAT (1953)  8:15 AM (Central)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando
BW-90 mins, TV-14, CC

RANSOM! (1956)  11:45 AM (Central)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
BW-102 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Wednesday – July 10, 2013

TRADE WINDS (1938)  8:30 PM (Central)
A private eye falls for the murderess he’s pursuing.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
BW-94 mins, TV-G

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

Friday – July 12, 2013

CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS (1983)  9:00 PM (Central) (Possibly in French?)
An accused man’s secretary tries to find the real killer.
Dir: François Truffaut Cast: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach
BW-111 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

MISSISSIPPI MERMAID (1969)  11:00 PM (Central) (Possibly in French?)
A plantation owner’s mail-order bride turns out to be a beautiful woman with murder on her mind.
Dir: François Truffaut Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet
C-123 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – July 13, 2013

THE FALCON’S ALIBI (1946)  9:45 AM (Central)
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron’s lost jewels.
Dir: Ray McCarey Cast: Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Vince Barnett
BW-63 mins, TV-G

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

Sunday – July 14, 2013

THE LADY EVE (1941)  1:00 PM (Central)
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him.
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC
(Definitely not a mystery, but an incredibly good Preston Sturges comedy. Beware, though >>> This might make you a Barbara Stanwyck fan!)

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

Monday – July 15, 2013

THE WHOLE TRUTH (1958)  5:00 AM (Central)
A woman tries to prove her cheating husband didn’t murder his mistress.
Dir: John Guillermin Cast: Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders
BW-84 mins, TV-PG

THE WRONG BOX (1966) 8:00 PM (Central)
Two elderly brothers plot to kill each other for a fortune.
Dir: Bryan Forbes Cast: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine
C-106 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – July 20, 2013

THE FALCON’S ADVENTURE (1946)  9:45 AM (Central)
A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.
Dir: William Berke Cast: Tom Conway, Madge Meredith, Edward S. Brophy
BW-62 mins, TV-G

GASLIGHT (1944)  7:00 PM (Central)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Wednesday – July 24, 2013

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940)  6:45 AM (Central)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
BW-120 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Thursday – July 25, 2013

THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948)  1:30 PM (Central)
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, TV-G, CC

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (1969) 7:00 PM (Central)
A headstrong young teacher in a private school ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable charges with her world view.
Dir: Ronald Neame Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
C-116 mins, TV-14
(Not a mystery, but a must-see for Maggie Smith fans.)

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

Saturday – July 27, 2013

NICK CARTER, MASTER DETECTIVE (1939)  9:45 AM (Central)
A famous detective investigates industrial espionage at a plane factory.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull
BW-59 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Sunday – July 28, 2013

COMPULSION (1959)  1:00 PM (Central)
Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – July 29, 2013

FEAR (1946)  5:45 PM (Central)
A detective uses psychological warfare to get a confession out of a murderous student.
Dir: Alfred Zeisler Cast: Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne
BW-68 mins, TV-PG

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

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

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