Movies: Amateur sleuth

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discove...

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript....

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus...

Sally Lockhart has struck a man dead with just three words, sent to her in a message from her father just before he drowned in the South China Seas. But unfortunately, Sally has no idea what the words The Seven Blessings mean. Before long, she is dra...

Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case....

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium....

Jongole Mitin Mashi is based on a story of anti-poaching of elephants and depicts the fight of Mitin against the enemies of the forest. Sequel to the 2019 detective thriller Mitin Mashi....

An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress....

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife....

A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star....

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone...

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family....

Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but ju...