Private Detective Glass Doors and Windows

 

Private investigator doors and windows from movies and TV. Private eye. Sheba, Baby header.

Justin Case.

Clean Slate. 

Uptown Saturday Night.

Sheba, Baby (1975)

 

Directed by William Girdler. Found on Tubi. Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin. Private detective blaxploitation. Last and least of the 70s Pam Grier flicks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheba,_Baby 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sheba-baby-1975 

https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/70048 

https://every70smovie.blogspot.com/2012/12/sheba-baby-1975.html 

https://craneshot.blogspot.com/2009/08/talk-before-i-put-my-1-foot-down-your-1.html

Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)

 

Directed by Andrew Bergman. Found on Tubi. James Caan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicolas Cage. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeymoon_in_Vegas 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/honeymoon-in-vegas-1992

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/honeymooninvegaspg13howe_a0aefa.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/honeymooninvegaspg13kempley_a0a2d8.htm

A Murder is Announced - Agatha Christie

 

Miss Marple from 1950. Pocket Book vintage paperback. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Murder_Is_Announced

Justin Case

 

1988 ABC. Blake Edwards TV movie and failed pilot. George Carlin. Ghost private detective. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Case_(film)

Field Gray - Philip Kerr

 

Bernie Gunther trade paperback I got off Amazon. From 2010. 7th in the series. 

https://berniegunther.com/book/field_grey/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kerr

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

 

Directed by Herbert Ross. Sherlock Holmes. Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lawrence Olivier. I also have this book by Nicholas Meyer. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven-Per-Cent_Solution_(film)

https://crimereads.com/bringing-nicholas-meyers-the-seven-per-cent-solution-to-the-big-screen/ 

https://www.tcm.com/articles/111437/the-seven-per-cent-solution 

https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s4062seve.html

If the Dead Rise Not - Philip Kerr

 

Bernie Gunther trade paperback I ordered off of Amazon. The third of four Bernie Gunther books I got this summer. Bernie is a hotel detective in this one and also partially set in Havana with two timelines. From 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_the_Dead_Rise_Not

https://berniegunther.com/book/if_dead_rise_not/

The Long Goodbye (1973)

 

Directed by Robert Altman. Found on Tubi. Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden. I have the Raymond Chandler book. Marlowe's cat looks exactly like my own General Sterling Price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Goodbye_(film) 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-long-goodbye-1973 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-long-goodbye-1973

https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/cteq/just-good-friends-or-its-ok-with-me-robert-altman-and-the-long-goodbye/

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/long-goodbye-robert-altman-leigh-bracketts-unique-fascinating-take-chandler-film-noir/

https://crimereads.com/50-years-of-the-long-goodbye/ 

https://trailersfromhell.com/the-long-goodbye/

A Quiet Flame - Philip Kerr

 

Bernie Gunther trade paperback I got off Amazon recently. This one he is in Argentina.

https://berniegunther.com/book/quiet_flame/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kerr

The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie

 

Miss Marple I found in my boxes of vintage paperbacks. The first Miss Marple novel from 1930 and the first for me. I read two Poirot paperbacks before this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_at_the_Vicarage

The One from the Other - Philip Kerr

 

I recently ordered several of the earlier Bernie Gunther books off of Amazon. One of my favorite detective series. This is the one that restarted the series after a 15 year hiatus.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780399152993

https://berniegunther.com/book/one_from_other/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kerr

A German Requiem - Philip Kerr

 

New trade paperback from Barnes & Noble. Bernie Gunther. One of the early ones, last in the Berlin Noir trilogy. From 1991. Partly set in Austria just after the war and The Third Man is referenced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_German_Requiem_(novel)

Hickory Dickory Death - Agatha Christie

 

Vintage Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot. Originally titled Hickory Dickory Dock in Britain. From 1955. Mystery set in a student hostel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory_Dickory_Dock_(novel)

Remington Steele - Red Holt Steele

 

Season 2, episode 3. Aired Sept. 27, 1983. Barbara Cason, Joel Polis, Lewis Arquette, Raye Birk, Audrie Neenan. It Happened One Night (1934) is referenced.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684864/

https://www.razorfine.com/television-reviews/remington-steele-red-holt-steele/

Magnum, P.I. - Legend of the Lost Art

 

Season 8, episode 10. Aired Feb. 10, 1988. Margaret Colin. Raiders of the Lost Ark parody episode.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639676/

https://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season8/Legend_of_the_Lost_Art.html

In attempting to figure out Peter Ridley-Smythe's plan, several classic movies are mentioned - The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierre Madre (1948), North by Northwest (1959), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), King Soloman's Mines (1950, the Stewart Granger version), Raiders of Ghost City (1944), The Perils of Pauline (1947), and Perils of Nyoka, aka "Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates" (1942). A brief clip from Perils of Nyoka is seen on Magnum's TV at the end. 

Out of the blue "Bogie Rick" returns, complete with white tux and cigarette.

Greeks Bearing Gifts - Philip Kerr

 

Trade paperback I just got from Barnes & Noble. From 2018. Bernie Gunther. One of my favorite detective series. Set in Germany during and after the war years. This one came out right when Mr. Kerr died.

https://therealbookspy.com/2018/04/08/a-book-spy-review-greeks-bearing-gifts-by-philip-kerr/  

https://www.crimetime.co.uk/greeks-bearing-gifts-by-philip-kerr/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kerr

The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie

 

Hercule Poirot. Started this yesterday. Magnum, P.I. was often reading Agatha Christie paperbacks. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_on_the_Links

Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)

 

Directed by Paul Flaherty. Found on Tubi. John Candy, Annie Potts, Jeffrey Jones, Shawnee Smith, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin.

On Kinja Golden Horn I had a "Crime Comedy" tag for just such movies but I failed to do that here so it is filed under "Crime Films" with other lightweight comedies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Harry_Crumb%3F

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-underrated-movies-of-1989/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whosharrycrumbpg13harrington_a0aaa4.htm

Remington Steele - Elementary Steele

 

Season 2, ep. 22. Aired May 22, 1984. Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Moto, Miss Marple, Philip Marlowe. With David Garrison and Keone Young. Movie references: The Big Sleep and Death Race 2000.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684843/