Speaking of turkeys...Have you seen Murder on the Orient Express?

Thanksgiving found me in front of the television a bit more than usual. While most of the time, I'd be upset about the amount of wasted hours spent lounging in front of the gogglebox and I worry that this attachment won't be easy to shake post-holiday weekend, still it makes me a little nostalgic for the days of the MMC. What? You've never heard of the MMC? Well, that's because I made it up. I did, or my sister did. I'm not quite sure. The MMC was the Murder Mystery Club, my siblings and neighbors dreamt up when we were in junior high. We played games like Murder Wink and our own version of Clue, watched a lot of Agatha Christie movies, especially Hercule Poirot mysteries, and "Ten Little Indians" and most alarming to our parents, created our own murder scenarios

We also watched a lot of murder mystery television shows, always making our guess of the killer known half-way through. So in honor of these morbid childhood memories here is my second list of the week. Great murder mysteries series of the 80s and 90s. I owe all of my paranoid delusions to these and The Nancy Drew books.

1. Murder She Wrote

2. Remington Steele

3. Scarecrow & Mrs. King

4. The Father Dowling Mysteries

5. Matlock

All of these are available on Amazon except "The Father Dowling Mysteries."

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