In the BBC television series Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes was a fictionalised account of Doyle's time as Bell's clerk.

** Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes with Ian Richardson: 1999 – 2000 ( 2 ), 2000 – 01 ( 2 ), 2001 – 02 ( 4 )

He adapted his own novel Chimera for ITV and directed the adaptation of Oktober as well as writing the feature-length episode The Kingdom of Bones for the BBC series Murder Rooms.

Continuing his path in the hard rock genre, Victims of the Future was a collection of straight-out rock ' n ' roll anthems ( such as " Teenage Idol " and " Hold on to Love "), a mournful love ballad (" Empty Rooms ", which then was redone by Moore for his 1985 Run for Cover album ), a cover of the Yardbirds ' " Shapes of Things ", and two darker songs, with some social and political commentary: " Victims of the Future " and " Murder in the Skies ", the latter being a protest against the Soviet Union's shooting down of Korean Air Flight 007.

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes is a BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 2000 and 2001.

* Murder Rooms – The Patient's Eyes: Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and his mentor Dr. Joseph Bell investigate the case of a woman who believes she's being followed by an apparition while bicycling along a lonely road.

* Murder Rooms – The Photographer's Chair: Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and his mentor Dr. Joseph Bell investigate the strangulation deaths of two persons found floating in the river, Doyle finding himself captivated by spiritualism while Bell ’ s suspicions lead him to a photographer who believes he saw his wife ’ s soul leave her body at the moment of death.

* Murder Rooms – The White Knight Stratagem: Dr. Joseph Bell helps the police investigate the murder of a money lender, but old animosity between him and the officer in charge leads to conflict, with matters becoming worse when Doyle sides with the lieutenant ’ s theories over Bell ’ s.

* Murder Rooms website

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It could be suggested that in Murder on the Orient Express Poirot allows the murderers to escape justice as well, after he discovers that twelve different people stabbed the victim – Mr. Ratchett – in his sleep.

* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.

* 1975 – Eliza Carthy, English singer-songwriter and fiddler ( Blue Murder )

* 1956 – GG Allin, American singer-songwriter ( The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers ) ( d. 1993 )

* 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found.

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* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

Category: Murder – suicides

Category: Murder – suicides

Some of Spacey's early roles include a widowed eccentric millionaire on L. A. Law, the television miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan ( 1988 ), opposite Lemmon, and the Richard Pryor / Gene Wilder – starring comedy See No Evil, Hear No Evil ( 1989 ).

* 1959 – Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Badlands, Blue Murder, and Sun Red Sun ) ( d. 1993 )

* 1965 – The Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

He tried his hand at playwriting one more time – in 1996 he collaborated with Company librettist George Furth on a play called Getting Away with Murder.

Waits wrote the following introduction for the Tompkins Square compilation People Take Warning – Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913 – 1938:

* March 4 – In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing, along with Emanuel Weiss, and Louis Capone.

* January 12 – Agatha Christie, English writer ( Murder On The Orient Express ) ( b. 1890 )

* April 24 – Murder of servant girl Jane Clouson in Eltham.

* April – Omie Wise, subject of a Murder ballad ( b. 1789 )

* May – The Thomas Overbury Murder Scandal ( 1615 – 1616 ) ends with the conviction of Earl and Countess of Somerset, who were, however, not hanged but imprisoned until 1622 in the Tower of London.

* February 22 – Murder of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas by James II of Scotland at Stirling Castle.

* Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction, T. J. Binyon ( Oxford, 1989 ) ISBN 0-19-219223-X pp. 57 – 58

His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award – winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ).

** The Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, suspending the death penalty for murder in the United Kingdom ; renewal of the Act in 1969 made the abolition permanent.

Category: Murder in the United Kingdom

The episode is entitled " I'm The Problem ", or " Murder on Board " in the United Kingdom version of the program ( Air Crash Investigation ).

Returning to the United Kingdom in 1953, Allen made his film debut in Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ).

A more highly fictionalized film on the same basic events, The Enforcer ( 1950 ), starring Humphrey Bogart, was released in the United Kingdom with the title Murder, Inc.

Although largely fictional, the film is based on the real-life investigation into a group of hired killers dubbed by the press as " Murder, Inc ." ( the film was released under that title in the United Kingdom ).

He is known for his portrayal of Wolf in the 2000 NBC miniseries The 10th Kingdom, his performance as detective Steve Thomas in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, his recurring role as Lorelai Gilmore's love interest Max Medina on the WB series Gilmore Girls, and his role as Josh in the indie romantic flick Kissing Jessica Stein.

VelJohnson has also made guest appearances in several TV shows, including The Equalizer, Diagnosis: Murder, Twice in a Lifetime, Will & Grace, Monk, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Eve, Crossing Jordan, The Parkers, That's So Raven, Chuck, in which he reprises his role as Al Powell, and Bones.

The luxurious dining car, where scenes for Murder on the Orient Express and other movies were filmed, is now in the OSE museum of Thessalonica.

* The novel Murder at the Museum of Natural History, by Michael Jahn ( 1994 ), features the museum.