Mystery!: A Celebration

by Ron Miller

Simply put, Mystery! A Celebration is a beautiful book. For any fan who has been captivated by the Edward Gorey cartoons, the erudite words of Vincent Price and Diana Rigg, or the tastefully assembled... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912333898
• ISBN13: 9780912333892
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Bay Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Questions answered and new paths to take

Once in a while something does come along to rival sliced bread. This book is it. I have had many questions about different mystery series. The latest is when the BBC produced The Dorothy L. Sayers series with Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, why did they stop short and not produce "Busman's Honeymoon"? And the answer is: "Sadly, Mystery! Viewers never got to see the payoff to this classic romance. Sayers wrote about the marriage in `Busman's Honeymoon', which couldn't be filmed for Mystery! Because Sayers had sold the film rights to Hollywood in the 1930's; it was turned into the 1940 film `Haunted Honeymoon', but efforts to secure the rights for the new BBC-TV version weren't successful." This book is packed with such information and many great stills form many Mystery! programs. Now I need to see the ones I missed.

Mystery : a celebration

Mystery : A Celebration is the ideal book to have by your armchair while you watch mysteries like Inspector Morse, Prime Suspect, the P.D. James mysteries, and many others that appear on the PBS MYSTERY series. Don't watch any of these mysteries without MYSTERY : A Celebration. Mystery readers will also enjoy this book. It provides the reader with a listing of titles by mystery authors like Colin Dexter, P.D. James, and others.It provides the reader with biographical information about the mystery authors and actors who are well known for portraying the popular detectives as well.