At first sight, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" is just your classic country house murder mystery. The characters are respectable members of the community. There's Dr. Sheppard. He's the narrator.

Gem needs your help to solve a mystery on the Scarlet Squid. Someone has taken five or her jewels and she needs you to search all five islands to find them. Will you help her? Click to play the game.

People have been captivated by mystery novels for almost two hundred years. Edgar Allan Poe, widely considered to be the inventor of the modern detective story, enthralled Victorian audiences with ...

By Sarah Lyall Our mystery columnist reviews books by Scott Phillips, Morgan Richter, Snowden Wright and Jamie Harrison. By Sarah Weinman Thomas Harris’s book came at a pivotal moment ...

The “Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail” caper has come to a happy conclusion, according to a press release from the Portland Metro Chamber and Downtown Portland Clean & Safe. The “Keep Portland ...

A cat was thought lost to the wilderness only ... “He probably didn’t have a lot of energy to even go further.” The big mystery remains how Rayne Beau made it across such a large swath ...

With fall’s arrival comes the promise of longer evenings — the perfect time to curl up with a mystery novel. This season’s offerings bring us quirky characters, puzzling murders and far ...

Anyone who has ever pet a cat or shuffled their feet across the ... "For the first time, we are able to explain a mystery that nobody could before: why rubbing matters," said Northwestern's ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A gray cat living an extraordinary life of visits to the beach ... getting lost in Yellowstone National ...

An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British ...

Like a great city, the mystery genre is home to many different communities. There are police procedurals, locked-room teasers, hard-boiled detective yarns and the soothing small-town cozies you ...

A cat was thought lost to the wilderness only ... “He probably didn’t have a lot of energy to even go further.” A big mystery remains — how Rayne Beau made it across such a large swath ...