By: P.G. Wodehouse

“When it comes to doping out a scheme, you’re the snake’s eyebrows!”

By: Matthew Sharpe

A quest to answer a seemingly answered question.

By: David Levine

“It only looks like conspiracy if you’re a detective.”

By: Joshua Glenn

From Orwell’s 1984 to Van Tilburg Clark’s THE TRACK OF THE CAT and Lawson’s THE FABULOUS FLIGHT

By: Gordon Dahlquist

For high shamelessness, MARATHON MAN is hard to top.

By: Joshua Glenn

Victor Canning’s THE GOLDEN SALAMANDER

By: Sherri Wasserman

You can’t ever really escape New York, not if you truly love it.

By: Joshua Glenn

Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s THE TRACK OF THE CAT

By: Mark Kingwell

A heady mixture of adventure and absolute tosh.

By: Tom Nealon

It’s Rabelais, but with Eastwood as Gargantua, and an orangutan as Pantugruel.

By: Joshua Glenn

Robert Heinlein’s RED PLANET

By: Heather Kapplow

He falls down and he gets up. Falls down, gets up.

By: Joshua Glenn

Fredric Brown’s WHAT MAD UNIVERSE

By: Jonathan Lethem

A film about obsessiveness, STRAIGHT TIME breeds it.

By: Peter Doyle

Expect zero in the way of male heroics.