After posting many Turner Classic Movies channel monthly lists of the mystery and crime movies they air during the month, I have come to expect certain things to happen during October, November, and December. I know I mentioned last month that I love the old black and white “Dracula/Frankenstein” movies the channel shows each October. And, I think I mentioned last December that I was surprised the channel wasn’t airing all of the Thin Man movies on the 31st – to take us into the next year. Well, this November I am surprised that I didn’t find a lot of Christmas movies airing during the month. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the channel used to sprinkle several Christmas themed movies during November.
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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2025
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Saturday – November 1, 2025
8:30 AM Tear Gas Squad (1940)
A brave young policeman single-handedly takes on a vicious criminal gang.
Dir: Terry Morse. Cast: Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson
55 mins
2:00 PM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – November 3, 2025
12:00 AM The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
A master thief escapes from a Canadian prison farm and makes his way to New York.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: David Brian, Marjorie Reynolds, John Archer
91 mins
8:15 AM 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
When his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron
81 mins
10:00 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
80 mins
4:00 PM The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
83 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – November 4, 2025
7:30 AM Secrets of the French Police (1932)
Strange crimes committed by a hypnotized woman are solved by a French detective.
Dir: Edward Sutherland. Cast: Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, Frank Morgan
58 mins
1:15 PM 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
64 mins
2:30 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
5:15 PM The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
62 mins
6:30 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
80 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – November 5, 2025
8:00 PM The Day of the Jackal (1973)
A nameless, faceless British assassin, with a code name of the Jackal, is hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Edward Fox, Alan Badel, Jean Sorel
143 mins
10:30 PM Z (1969)
A political assassination uncovers a hotbed of corruption.
Dir: Costa-Gavras. Cast: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
125 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – November 6, 2025
3:00 AM Blow Out (1981)
When audio technician Jack Terri is recording sound effects for a movie, he hears a car crash. Just as the car is sinking in the river, Jack pulls the woman inside to safety, but cannot save the other passenger. When he learns that the man who drowned was a presidential candidate, he suspects that the wreck was not an accident, …
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow
107 mins
5:00 AM Executive Action (1973)
A hypothesis constructed from the conspiracy theories advanced by Kennedy assassination investigator, Mark Lane. Based on evidence the Warren Commission refused to hear.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Paul Carr
91 mins
8:00 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, Terence Fisher
93 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – November 7, 2025
7:15 AM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
65 mins
2:15 PM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins
6:00 PM Smart Girls Don’t Talk (1948)
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
Dir: Richard L. Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton
81 mins
4:15 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
100 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – November 8, 2025
2:00 PM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
80 mins
12:15 AM Blind Spot (1947)
A mystery writer accused of murdering his publisher sets out to discover the real killer.
Dir: Robert Gordon. Cast: Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray
73 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – November 9, 2025
10:00 AM Blind Spot (1947)
A mystery writer accused of murdering his publisher sets out to discover the real killer.
Dir: Robert Gordon. Cast: Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray
73 mins
11:30 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
97 mins
8:00 PM The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
A circus girl is manipulated into becoming a governor’s lover. When the governor kills the former circus boss, the girl takes the blame to hide the truth and faces the electric chair.
Dir: Phil Goldstone. Cast: Zita Johann, John Miljan, Alan Dinehart
65 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – November 10, 2025
2:15 PM The Unsuspected (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter
103 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – November 12, 2025
8:45 AM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
80 mins
10:15 AM 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
11:45 AM Journey Into Fear (1942)
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by German agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio
68 mins
2:45 PM 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
8:00 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – November 13, 2025
4:45 AM The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as “The 39 Steps.”
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
87 mins
6:30 AM Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
Dir: Edward Killy. Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer
66 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers mystery series.*****
7:45 AM The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
62 mins
*****Based on Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason mystery series.*****
9:00 AM The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
83 mins
*****Based on S.S. Van Dine’s Philo Vance mystery series.*****
10:30 AM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
92 mins
*****Based on Agatha Christie’s stand alone mystery.*****
12:15 PM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins
2:00 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins
*****Loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mystery series.*****
3:45 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
6:00 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
112 mins
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Saturday – November 15, 2025
1:15 AM Blackmail (1929)
A shopkeeper’s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her. (Sound version.)
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
86 mins
2:45 AM Becoming Hitchcock – The Legacy of Blackmail (2024)
A reflection on the development of Alfred Hitchcock’s signature style, through the making of one of his benchmark films – Blackmail (1929).
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau. Cast: Elvis Mitchell (narrator), Alfred Hitchcock
72 mins
*****This might be interesting to watch – if you’re planning on watching the sound version of Blackmail.*****
3:30 PM The Set-Up (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who’ve ordered him to throw his last fight.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
72 mins
5:00 PM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins
10:00 PM 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. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – November 16, 2025
12:15 AM High and Low (1963)
When the son of his chauffeur is kidnapped by mistake, a wealthy man faces the dilemma of paying the ransom.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
143 mins
***In Japanese*****
4:45 AM Ladies They Talk About (1933)
A lady bank robber becomes the cell block boss after she’s sent to prison.
Dir: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot
69 mins
10:00 AM High and Low (1963)
When the son of his chauffeur is kidnapped by mistake, a wealthy man faces the dilemma of paying the ransom.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
143 mins
***In Japanese*****
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Monday – November 17, 2025
6:30 AM Ring of Fire (1961)
A group of delinquents hold a sheriff hostage in the middle of a forest fire.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone. Cast: David Janssen, Joyce Taylor, Frank Gorshin
90 mins
8:15 AM Man Hunt (1936)
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Marguerite Churchill, Charles ‘Chic’ Sale
60 mins
9:30 AM Young and Innocent (1937)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder. British film also known by the U.S. title “The Girl Was Young.”
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
83 mins
11:00 AM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 mins
2:15 PM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
100 mins
4:00 PM 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
106 mins
6:00 PM M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
110 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – November 18, 2025
12:00 AM 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
128 mins
6:00 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
73 mins
12:45 PM The Walking Stick (1970)
A beautiful polio victim is seduced into helping with a robbery.
Dir: Eric Till. Cast: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams
101 mins
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Wednesday – November 19, 2025
4:00 PM Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
114 mins
10:15 PM Marathon Man (1976)
After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.
Dir: John Schlesinger. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
125 mins
4:30 AM Eye of the Needle (1981)
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Dir: Richard Marquand/ Cast: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna
112 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – November 20, 2025
7:45 AM Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
91 mins
9:30 AM The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall
75 mins
6:30 PM Flight from Destiny (1941)
An elderly professor with six months to live plots a murder to reunite two young lovers.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn
75 mins
8:00 PM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins
10:00 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
94 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – November 22, 2025
12:00 AM Performance (1970)
A wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star’s decaying mansion.
Dir: Donald Cammell. Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
106 mins
8:00 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
107 mins
10:00 PM Chinatown (1974)
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Dir: Roman Polanski. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
130 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – November 23, 2025
12:30 AM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins
10:00 AM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – November 24, 2025
2:00 AM Deep Crimson (1996)
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in a woman who loves and controls him.
Dir: Arturo Ripstein. Cast: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn González
114 mins
*****In Spanish*****
4:00 AM Purple Noon (1961)
Tom Ripley is an angelic-looking young American whose talents for everything but holding down a job are impressive. When he is recruited by a concerned father to travel first class (all expenses paid) to Paris to bring back an errant son, he accepts. The two young men enjoy the good life in Italy until Tom finds his money …
Dir: René Clément. Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt
118 mins
*****In French*****
6:00 AM Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
An ambitious newspaper woman traces bank robbers to an ocean liner.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy
58 mins
8:00 PM 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. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
130 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – November 25, 2025
7:30 AM Guilty Hands (1931)
A district attorney tries to frame an innocent girl for the murder he committed.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis
69 mins
4:30 PM Arsene Lupin (1932)
A gentleman thief risks his life in an attempt to steal the Mona Lisa.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley
84 mins
6:00 PM Dinner at Eight (1933)
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Jean Harlow
113 mins
*****Not a mystery, but very, very good – especially if you like Jean Harlow as much as I do!*****
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Thursday – November 27, 2025
3:00 AM Winter Kills (1979)
An assassinated president’s brother investigates the unsolved crime.
Dir: William Richert. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, John Huston
96 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – November 28, 2025
10:30 AM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins
1:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – November 29, 2025
3:45 PM Libel (1959)
A former POW is accused of being an impostor.
Dir: Anthony Asquith. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia De Havilland, Paul Massie
100 mins
5:30 PM The Steel Trap (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
85 mins
8:00 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer’s story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer’s cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer’s family.
Dir: Charles Laughton. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
93 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – November 30, 2025
12:00 AM Postmark for Danger (1955)
When a journalist dies, his brother takes up his investigation of a smuggling ring.
Dir: Guy Green. Cast: Terry Moore, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester
78 mins
6:00 AM A Fever in the Blood (1961)
A former governor is murdered and his killer’s trial is sensationalized in the media.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Angie Dickinson, Jack Kelly
117 mins
10:00 AM Postmark For Danger (1955)
When a journalist dies, his brother takes up his investigation of a smuggling ring.
Dir: Guy Green Cast: Terry Moore, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester
78 mins
***** ***** ***** *****
If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in November, 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 October television mystery movies schedule:
Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2025 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.
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