Few actor-character combinations have become so firmly fixed in our minds as that of Raymond Burr and Perry Mason. Burr played the ace attorney in a long running series and later in television movies. Isn’t it true that Perry Mason never lost a case?

Making movies is no longer the monopoly of big film studios or of independent producers with access to big money. New technology has made it possible for anyone with a hand-held camera and internet access to be a filmmaker. This article looks at a short mystery uploaded to YouTube.

A supernatural horror mystery from 1945, Dead of Night was the first movie to weave together an anthology of stories with a linking narrative. A spooky collection of tales involving nightmares, haunting and a dummy with a mind of its own – what is the mystery behind Walter Craig’s recurring dream?

Not many people, on reaching the age of sixty, decide they will take up detective work - but the redoubtable Hetty Wainthropp does exactly that, by way of catching a young shoplifter and looking into the disappearance of an elderly woman. Patricia Routledge delights in the role of the senior sleuth.

Baretta was a hugely popular television detective show that still has many fans today. There was little mystery involved in Baretta’s cases, but star Robert Blake later became a sensation when he was accused, and acquitted at trial, of murder. Is the star more mysterious than the show?

Although Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed by numerous actors, for many, Basil Rathbone is the definitive Holmes. Here is a glimpse of the actor, his relationship with the famous occupant of 221b Baker Street, and the series of Hollywood movies in which he brought Sherlock Holmes to life.