Do you enjoy Film Noir, Swedish mysteries, Agatha Christie, espionage thrillers, potboilers, or Sherlock Holmes?

Mystery Summer promises to fill your summer months with Film Noir screenings, mystery book discussions, and more, all at the Mid-Manhattan Library!

BOOKS
Authors as Sleuths	Historical mysteries featuring famous authors, such as Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde, as amateur sleuths.	Elizabeth
Bookish Mysteries	Intellectual mysteries and thrillers with plots centered on books, manuscripts or libraries.	Elizabeth
Gialli! Italian Mysteries	Mysteries set in Italy from thrillers to more metaphysical detective stories.	Elizabeth
International Mysteries	Mysteries set in countries all around the world, including: Thailand, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, England, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, and The Solomon Islands.	Melissa & Elizabeth
Mystery in the NYPL Reader's Den	Mysteries and suspenseful fiction discussed in Reader's Den, NYPL's online book discussion group.	Elizabeth
New York, New York, It's a Mysterious Town	A selection of mysteries and thrillers set in the New York City of the past, present, and future.	Lois & Elizabeth
Story Time for Grown-ups Short Mysteries	Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups is a short story read-aloud program that meets every two weeks at lunch time. This summer in conjunction with the Summer Reading Mysteries theme, all the stories selected were mysteries.	Lois & Elizabeth
Teen Mysteries	Great mysteries that deal with everything from real teen issues to the paranormal.	Sandra
Top True Crime	Murder, assassination, robbery, fraud, extortion, conspiracy and other true crimes are recounted in these Edgar Award winners and nominees.	Elizabeth
Top True Crime eBooks	Murder, assassination, robbery, fraud, extortion, conspiracy and other true crimes are recounted in these Edgar Award winners and nominees.	Elizabeth

FILM
AFI's Top 10 Mystery Films	The American Film Institute's selections for best mystery films made in the U.S.	Elizabeth
Film Noir 101	A list of 10 essential American film noirs from the 1940's.	Thomas
International Detectives on DVD	Adaptations of popular international detective novels filmed mostly on location. With links to the original novels.	Elizabeth
Law & Order, British Style	A selection of British crime and courtroom dramas featuring memorable characters and performances as well as clever and suspenseful plots.	Elizabeth
Noir B-Movies	A selection of raw, low-budget Film Noir b-movies.	Thomas
NYC Film Noir	While the majority of American noirs take place in Los Angeles, this list highlights film noirs set in New York City.	Thomas

Photo: Joost Assink, CC BY 2.0

"[Film noir] has a singular position in the brief history of American motion pictures: a body of films that not only presents a relatively cohesive vision of America but that does so in a manner transcending the influences of auteurism or genre..." — Alain Silver, Film Noir Reader

Join us Wednesdays at 7 p.m. (on the first floor) and Sundays at 2 p.m. (on the sixth floor) for Film Noir at Mid-Manhattan Library. All screenings are FREE and seating is first-come, first-served.

Download official flier: Wednesdays | Sundays

 

MAY
Wed	May 30, 2012	The Maltese Falcon (1941, 101 min)	7 p.m.
JUN
Sun	Jun 3, 2012	Mildred Pierce (1945, 113 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Jun 6, 2012	Double Indemnity (1944, 107 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Jun 10, 2012	Scarlet Street (1945, 103 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Jun 13, 2012	Murder, My Sweet (1944, 95 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Jun 17, 2012	Notorious (1946, 101 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Jun 20, 2012	Detour (1946, 67 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Jun 24, 2012	The Big Sleep (1946, 114 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Jun 27, 2012	Lady in the Lake (1946, 103 min)	7 p.m.
JUL
Sun	Jul 1, 2012	Gilda (1946, 120 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Jul 4, 2012	Library Closed for Independence Day	N/A
Sun	Jul 8, 2012	The Big Clock (1948, 95 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Jul 11, 2012	Out of the Past (1947, 97 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Jul 15, 2012	Woman in the Window (1944, 99 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Jul 18, 2012	Crossfire (1947, 86 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Jul 22, 2012	Sunset Boulevard (1950, 110 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Jul 25, 2012	The Lady From Shanghai (1948, 87 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Jul 29, 2012	Asphalt Jungle (1950, 112 min)	2 p.m.
AUG
Wed	Aug 1, 2012	Gun Crazy (1949, 87 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Aug 5, 2012	Strangers on a Train (1951, 101 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Aug 8, 2012	In a Lonely Place (1950, 93 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Aug 12, 2012	The Big Heat (1953, 90 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Aug 15, 2012	D.O.A. (1950, 83 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Aug 19, 2012	Sweet Smell of Success (1957, 96 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Aug 22, 2012	Ace in the Hole (1951, 111 min)	7 p.m.
Sun	Aug 26, 2012	Touch of Evil (1958, 108 min)	2 p.m.
Wed	Aug 29, 2012	Narrow Margin (1952, 71 min)	7 p.m.

Still from In a Lonely Place (1950, 94 min)

Reader's Den is a monthly, online book discussion led by NYPL's resident bibliophiles.

Check out the book (or ebook) from NYPL's catalog and join us once a week for a lively blog discussion of the current month's selection. To celebrate Mystery Summer, we have four great mystery titles coming up:

MONTH	TITLE	AUTHOR	DISCUSSIONS
Jun	11/22/63	Stephen King	1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Jul	The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton	1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Aug	The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett	1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Sep	The Eyre Affair	Jasper Fforde	1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Photo: Snowshot, CC BY-NC 2.0

Love a good story? Sit back and relax during Mixed Bag as storyteller extraordinaire Lois Moore reads you a story or two at lunch or dinner time!

JUNE
Wed	Jun 13, 2012	New York, New York: It's a Mysterious Town Last Stop, Ditmars by Tori Carrington The Last Supper by Carole Lea Benjamin	1 p.m.
Wed	Jun 27, 2012	New York, New York: It's a Mysterious Town The Man Who Loved Flowers by Stephen King Too Many Crooks by Donald E. Westlake	1 p.m.
JULY
Tues	Jul 17, 2012	New York, New York: It's a Mysterious Town Last Stop, Ditmars by Tori Carrington The Last Supper by Carole Lea Benjamin	7 p.m.
Wed	Jul 18, 2012	Mean Streets of the City The Good Samaritan by Charles Ardai In for a Penny by Lawrence Block	1 p.m.
Tues	Jul 24, 2012	New York, New York: It's a Mysterious Town The Man Who Loved Flowers by Stephen King Too Many Crooks by Donald E. Westlake	7 p.m.
Wed	Jul 25, 2012	Mean Streets of the City I'm Nobody by Eduardo Antonio Parra Souls Burning by Bill Pronzini	1 p.m.
AUGUST
Tues	Aug 7, 2012	Mean Streets of the City The Good Samaritan by Charles Ardai In for a Penny by Lawrence Block	7 p.m.
Wed	Aug 8, 2012	Mystery Classics The Blue Cross by G. K. Chesterton	1 p.m.
Tues	Aug 21, 2012	Mean Streets of the City I'm Nobody by Eduardo Antonio Parra Souls Burning by Bill Pronzini	7 p.m.
Wed	Aug 22, 2012	Mystery Classics A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	1 p.m.

Photo: gigi4791, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0