Shows
This long-running TV series featured Jessica Fletcher solving murders in Cabot Cove.
Murder, She Wrote
Agatha Christie introduced this Belgian detective who solved “whodunits” with methodical flair.
Hercule Poirot
Vanilla Ice’s hit Ice Ice Baby was accused of stealing its bassline from Queen and David Bowie's song titled:
Under Pressure
This infamous outlaw couple in the 1930s were gunned down after a string of robberies.
Bonnie and Clyde
This 1974 mystery film, based on an Agatha Christie novel, had the famous twist: everyone on the train “done it.”
Murder on the Orient Express
Columbo always got his suspects talking with this trademark line: “Just one more ___.”
Question
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, this detective solved the case.
Sherlock Holmes
The Beach Boys’ Surfin’ U.S.A. copied the melody of this Chuck Berry classic.
Sweet Little Sixteen
The 1970s “Son of Sam” murders in New York were committed by this man.
David Berkowitz
The 1995 movie The Usual Suspects revealed this man as the infamous Keyser Söze.
Verbal Kint
Angela Lansbury also played a detective in this board-game-inspired film before starring in Murder, She Wrote.
Clue
This 1934 Christie novel shocked readers when the narrator himself turned out to be the murderer.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Bob Dylan sang The Lonesome Death of ___, a ballad inspired by a maid wrongfully accused of theft.
Hattie Carroll
his gangster, nicknamed “Scarface,” was finally caught not for murder but for tax evasion.
Al Capone
This courtroom drama ends with Jack Nicholson shouting, “You can’t handle the truth!”
A Few Good Men
This 1960s show introduced America to amateur sleuth Perry Mason’s courtroom takedowns.
Perry Mason
Gillian Flynn’s 2012 thriller features the mysterious disappearance of this character.
Amy Dunne (Gone Girl)?
This Beatles song led to a plagiarism suit claiming it copied He’s So Fine by the Chiffons.
My Sweet Lord (George Harrison)
This 1950s jewel thief, nicknamed the “Flying Bandit,” escaped prison three times.
Slick Willie Sutton
This 1991 thriller featured Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.
The Silence of the Lambs
This long-running TV show, narrated by Robert Stack in the 1980s and later rebooted on Netflix, featured real-life mysteries, disappearances, and crimes.
Unsolved Mysteries
In And Then There Were None, the mysterious killer lures guests to this location.
an island
In Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal, Annie is repeatedly asked this urgent question.
“Annie, are you okay?"
This still-unidentified criminal taunted San Francisco police in coded letters during the 1960s.
Zodiac Killer
Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder is about a husband plotting to murder his wife, played by this famous actress.
Grace Kelly