NPL Books into Films: Mystery & Thriller
Annotation:A detective takes on three unsolved cases that have had a lasting impact on the lives of the survivors.
Annotation:A team of elite American soldiers sent to capture two Somali lieutenants find themselves trapped by enemy forces.
Annotation:A divorced woman struggles to provide for herself and her daughter, who makes increasingly selfish and unreasonable demands.
Annotation:Sicilian Inspector Montalbano’s investigation of two seemingly unrelated cases leads him to a young boy who may hold the key.
Annotation:Episode 1 is The Snack Thief.
Annotation:Returning from the Afghan War, Dr. Watson takes rooms at 221B Baker Street with Sherlock Holmes and helps him on the case of a body with no wounds and a word written in blood on the wall.
Annotation:Episode 1, A Study in Pink, is adapted from A Study in Scarlet.
Annotation:DCI Tom Barnaby uncovers a web of scandals and secrets after a spinster dies in a picturesque English village.
Annotation:Set 5, Episode 1 is The Killings at Badger's Drift.
Annotation:When his partner is killed during a routine surveillance, Sam Spade becomes suspicious of the woman who hired them.
Annotation:In 1895 Toronto, Detective Murdoch investigates the death of a wealthy family’s maid.
Annotation:Episode 1 is Except the Dying.
Annotation:A freak convergence of weather systems creates a disastrous storm in the North Atlantic that catches the crew of fishing boat unawares.
Annotation:George Smiley is called out of retirement to investigate the possibility that a Soviet mole has penetrated the top levels of British intelligence.
Annotation:A U.S. Marshal’s hunt for a missing prisoner on an island asylum for the criminally insane is jeopardized by a hurricane and hidden secrets.
Annotation:Dexter Morgan, a lab tech for the Miami police, is also a serial killer who restricts himself to targeting other killers.
Annotation:Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda—recently graduated from the police academy—join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree.
Annotation:Episode 1 is Before the Frost.
Annotation:A woman in Botswana opens a detective agency and helps people solve a variety of mysteries.
Annotation:Fiction A hunter stumbles upon dead bodies, a heroin stash, and $2.4 million and ends up on the run for his life when he takes the money.
Annotation:Two young men start an underground fight club that transforms into a violent revolution.
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Books that have been made into mystery and suspense films, along with the DVDs for comparison.
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