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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for March 2022

I was pretty excited when I started compiling the March 2022 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) mystery movie list. The first two days of the March schedule were exactly what I like to find: lots and lots of mystery movies! I have seen many of them, however if there’s a movie that I particularly enjoy seeing, I occasionally find myself DVR-ing it so that I can watch it again! I’m back to my needlework projects, so I enjoy watching the movies in the background.

TCM has added a lot of “more modern” (i.e. movies after the mid 1950s) – I am pretty selective about those mystery movies. I much prefer movies that used to be on the three main networks late, late at night – movies from the 1930s and 1940s. Hmmm… I wonder how many of you prefer those old-time movies…

Anyway, getting back to the purpose of this blog entry – here are the mystery movies you can find on the Turner Classic Movies channel during March 2022:

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – March 2022

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March 1, 2022

10:00 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin’ Actors: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
110 mins

4:15 PM The Naked City (1948)
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin’ Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
96 mins

6:00 PM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

10:00 PM Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
Phil Green is a magazine writer who decides to write a series of articles exposing Antisemitism. After failing to achieve an in-depth grasp of the problem, he pretends to be Jewish in order to experience the hostility of bigots first-hand.
Dir: Elia Kazan. Actors: Gregory Peck, Dorothy Mcguire, John Garfield
118 mins

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March 2, 2022

12:15 AM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

2:00 AM Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
114 mins

4:00 AM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

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March 3, 2022

8:15 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
190 mins

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March 4, 2022

12:15 AM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

10:15 PM The French Connection (1971)
A tough-talking New York City detective and his partner uncover an international drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William Friedkin. Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
104 mins

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March 6, 2022

12:45 AM Raging Bull (1980)
The story of Jake LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion, whose reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his troubled domestic life: full of rage, jealousy, and suspicion–particularly towards his wife and manager/brother–which, in the end, left him destitute, alone, and seeking redemption.
Dir: Martin Scorsese. Actors: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
129 mins

10:15 AM The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
Dir: Charles Crichton. Actors: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
81 mins

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March 7, 2022

2:15 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. Actors: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
90 mins
*****I’m not sure if this movie qualifies as a mystery…*****

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March 12, 2022

12:00 AM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

2:15 PM Topkapi (1964)
An international band of thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily guarded museum.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Actors: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
120 mins

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March 13, 2022

6:00 PM 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. Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
111 mins
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March 17, 2022

4:15 AM Rashomon (1950)
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura
88 mins
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12:00 PM Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras. Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
125 mins
*****Im not sure if this movie is in English or French… It may even have parts that are in Russian.*****

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March 19, 2022

2:15 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Actors: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins

4:30 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Actors: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

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March 20, 2022

11:45 AM I Want to Live! (1958)
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
Dir: Robert Wise. Actors: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
120 mins

2:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

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March 21, 2022

5:15 AM The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
Dir: William Dieterle. Actors: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard
123 mins

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March 23, 2022

12:30 AM A Letter to Three Wives (1948)
A small-town seductress notifies her three best friends that she has run off with one of their husbands.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Actors: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
103 mins
*****This movie is a “sort-a” mystery movie. It keeps you guessing ’til the end…*****

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March 25, 2022

4:15 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Actors: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

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March 27, 2022

11:30 AM All About Eve (1950)
Broadway legend Margo Channing has everything: a successful career, close friends, and a man who loves her. She also has a fan named Eve Harrington, who manages to worm her way into Margo’s life in order to study her like a blueprint.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Actors: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
138 mins
*****This movie is not a mystery, but if you haven’t seen it… it’s oh-so good.*****

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March 30, 2022

10:45 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
119 mins

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If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in March, 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 February 2022 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for February 2022 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.

February 21 to February 27, 2022

Here is the list of new releases for February 21 to February 27!

Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell & Tace Baker): Batter Off Dead (This will be the 10th in the Country Store Mystery Series.)

Peggy Ehrhart: Death of a Knit Wit (This will be the 8th in the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series.)

Amanda Flower (aka Isabella Alan): Put Out to Pasture (This will be the 2nd in the Farm to Table Mystery Series.)

J. A. Jance: Nothing to Lose (This will be the 26th in the J.P. Beaumont Mystery Series.)

Libby Klein: Antique Auctions Are Murder (This will be the 7th in the Poppy McAllister Mystery Series.)

Carlene O’Connor: Murder on an Irish Farm (This will be the 9th in the Irish Village Mystery Series.)

Diane Vallere: The Kill of it All (This will be the 9th in the Mad for Mod Mystery Series.)

Cozy Reader Questions

It’s been a while, and I’ve accumulated quite a few reader questions! I intend to do this more frequently, but I keep forgetting…

From Bonney:

I’m looking for help in looking for a book (not sure if it was a series) but the dog was trained to search the whole house before it’s owner proceeded into the house. Any ideas?

From Nance:

I am looking for the author of several mystery books with a central female Asian character who works in San Francisco. I believe she is young.

PS: Alice suggests this could be the Noodle Shop Mystery Series by Vivien Chien , which seems quite possible – I don’t recall if it was in San Francisco or not, but it does star a sleuth of Asian descent. Lori suggests that it could by Naomi Hirahara, which I’m less familiar with but does seem to have written several series starring Asian-American sleuths. Tari suggests Anne R. Tan, another author I’m not familiar with but that does seem possible after a quick search of her works. Patricia suggested the Bill Smith & Lydia Chin Mystery Series by  S. J. Rozan. Ashley suggests it could be Gigi Pandian‘s Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series.

From Heather:

Hey, I’m looking for a series that was about a middle age film star that started to solve murders that happened on her film/TV/theater sets.
Also , the younger police officer that ends up working with her becomes her boyfriend. I think her son was in the cast of characters.

I know it was written in the 90’s.

PS: Kathryn suggests that this could be either the Polly Pepper Mystery Series, by R. T. Jordan, or the Desert Flowers Mystery Series by Lee Hollis. Both seem possible.

From Janis:

I am wondering if anyone recalls a mystery novel set in Arkansas featuring a protagonist who is a male Legal Aid attorney. I think it was published in the early 1990s. Does this meager description ring a bell for anyone? Thank you!

PS: Sharon suggested this could be the Gideon Page Mystery Series, by Grif Stockley, another series and author I’m not familiar with, but the description seems like a reasonable match.

From AT:

I’ve been trying to find a book, don’t remember the title or the author. I vaguely remember the sleuth is a woman, either inherited or bought an older home, with some kind of secret, money or treasure hidden in the house. I believe the Sheriff helps her and I know it was a series, because at the end of the book, there was an excerpt for the 2nd book.

PS: Pen suggests this could be the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery Series, by Lauren Elliott – I’m not familiar with the author but it does look like a possibility. E suggests it could be the Crime With the Classics Mystery Series, by Katherine Bolger Hyde. Mick suggests it could be the Wedding Planner Mystery Series by Stephanie Blackmoore.

From MJB:

I’ve run across a series in this category recently (Danna: this was posted in the Book Store Owner category) but regret to report I cannot recall the author or titles (I believe three so far). The major character moves, with her golden retriever Gatsby, from Maine to southern Massachusetts to take over her grandmother’s bookstore for a year while her newly-retired grandmother tours the world! The second and third books involve an old letter and an old photo. Does this sound familiar to anyone out there? If so, please let me know the author and titles! Thank you in advance!

PS: Nancy suggests this could be the Annie’s Attic Mystery Series, a long series written by various authors – some details don’t quite fit, but it’s always possible I’m misremembering or that the question is (accidentally) combining several different series. Emily suggests it might be the Seabreeze Bookshop Mystery Series, by Penny Brooke.

Thank you in advance to anyone who answers! I know some of these are very vague, even for these sort of “do you remember a series where…?” sort of questions, so we’ll have to see how this goes! As I get possible answers, I’ll post them with the question…

One New Cozy Mystery Series Coming March 2022

There will be one new upcoming Cozy Mystery series by an established site author with their first releases in March!

Gigi Pandian will be releasing Under Lock & Skeleton Key, the first in the Secret Staircase Mystery Series. The first in what promises to be an architecturally based mystery series will start out with one of the most classic mystery premises of all time, the locked room murder. Tempest Raj is heading back to her childhood home in California, and it’s only a matter of time before she also returns to her father’s construction company specializing in eccentric architecture like hidden passages and (as mentioned in the series name) secret staircases. But when a former coworker turns up dead in a passage that was supposedly sealed for over a century, she’ll need to use all of her architectural and mystery solving prowess to determine the killer. Pandian is also the author of the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Series starring an antiquarian adventurer and the Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series starring an alchemist in Oregon.

I won’t be discussing this one as much because it doesn’t look particularly “Cozy”, but Wendy Roberts will also be releasing Burning Hope, the first in her Red Hooper Mystery Series. Despite having paranormal elements (a popular element in many Cozy series), this one looks more like a thriller to me… but it might be worth picking up nevertheless.

For more upcoming Cozy Mystery Series, check the New Mystery Series page!

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