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A Nineteenth Century Crime Drama From BBC America

Posted: 13 Aug 2012 06:03 PM PDT

BBC America launches its first scripted show, Copper, on August 19th.
The show, set in New York's Five Points in 1863,features a police officer named Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones). The series, created by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, is on every Sunday at 10 p.m., 9 Central time.

More here from Richard Morgan (Wall Street Journal online).

Marlowe's Return

Posted: 13 Aug 2012 10:31 AM PDT

The Chandler estate has asked John Banville to bring Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe back in a new novel. Mr. Banville will be using the pseudonym Benjamin Black, the name he uses for his own detective series. More here from the New York Times.
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