Stupid Criminal Tricks – cars, cameras, and dog hair | Law and Fiction. Missoula, Montana police recently put the bite on a serial car thief, with help from his cell phone — and his dog. The Missoulian reports that the man stole an SUV in Spokane, Washington and two more in Missoula, where he was arrested after being seen with one of the cars, which was under surveillance. (For readers not in Montana, the two cites are about 200 miles apart.) When police found the cars, they also found “dog-related items and dog hair with color, length and type consistent with a dog owned by Roth,” according to the newspaper’s account of court documents. He had also taken pictures of the stolen cars with his cell phone. And – in case you don’t think the guy was stupid enough – he was also charged with criminal possession of drug paraphernalia and driving a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked license. Put this in your comic novel–because you couldn’t write this in a serious mystery with a straight face.
Killer Characters. Mystery Lovers' Kitchen. Original crime stories, exclusive excerpts, blog posts, giveaways | CriminalElement.com. The Hallmark of Mystery and the Mystery of Hallmark. Most of us probably know Hallmark as the greeting card people, but if your cable TV lineup extends beyond the basic selections you may have noticed that somewhere higher up there in the channel range is a creature known as the Hallmark Movie Channel.
While Hallmark’s not going to give Hollywood a run for their money anytime soon, they do generate quite a few original movies, including nearly 250 Hallmark Hall of Fame titles alone over the course of several decades. Secrets of Spying Soccer Mom Among Hallmark’s output of original films are a number of series that might be of interest to mystery fans. They include Jane Doe (starring Lea Thompson), which chronicles the adventures of a soccer mom type, who also happens to work for something known as the Central Security Agency. There is also McBride, which stars John Larroquette as a crime-solving lawyer. If you’re keen on something with more of a cozy (for lack of a better word) feel, then two other Hallmark movie series are worth a look.
Watch Mystery Woman Free Online. The Mysteries of Mysterious Bookstores. Readers of mystery fiction may or may not be the most avid fans of their particular genre but they’ve got to be high on the list. Which might go a long way toward explaining why so much mystery fiction takes place in and around bookstores, and particularly mystery bookstores. It would take someone much better versed in the history of mystery to cite the earliest instances of this sort of thing, but even I can go back at least a quarter of a century or so to Carolyn G.
Hart’s Death on Demand series. which concerns the exploits of amateur detective and mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling. The series—and the bookstore, which is located on a South Carolina island and tourist destination known as Broward’s Rock—share the same name: Death on Demand. So does the first book in the series, which was published in 1987 and found a group of mystery writers serving as chief suspects in a series of killings. If it sounds like something you might like to read, take Hart heart.