It's raining here in the D.C. area and a bit chilly, perfect weather for indoor entertainment. If you like computer games, check out The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes, the first computer game officially licensed by the Conan Doyle Estate. The characters are all there—Holmes, Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Mycroft—woven into 16 cases the user gets to try and solve the case along with Holmes. There are also some bonus puzzles, anagrams, cryptograms, jigsaw, memory, etc.
James Patterson is extending his empire to include video games, as well, with Women's Murder Club: Death in Scarlet, a cross between his books and the CSI television series.
But if you're tired of sitting in front of a computer, you can sit in front of a movie screen instead. Desson Howe of the Washington Post reviewed Roman de Gare, a French film and a "user-friendly murder mystery" from Claude Lelouch, starring Fanny Ardant as Judith, a crime novelist accused of murder, and Zinedine Soualem as a Paris detective. Howe concludes that "The movie is more entertaining than it is logical; its narrative leaps are sometimes ahead of our ability to believe them. But as the compellingly enigmatic Pierre, Pinon keeps us rapt. And Lelouch keeps us caught up in the intrigue, the mystery and the fun of the film's murderous potential, rather than feeling edge-of-the-seat discomfort and worry on behalf of the characters."
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