THE MALTESE FALCON: Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. TCM Greatest Classic Films: Murder Mysteries movie Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr. TCM Greatest Classic Films: Murder Mysteries video co-star.

TCM Greatest Classic Films: Murder Mysteries film This work is directed and written for the screen by John Huston. TCM Greatest Classic Films: Murder Mysteries review

THE BIG SLEEP: L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case. Lauren Bacall costars in Howard Hawks' direction of Raymond Chandler's novel. DIAL M FOR MURDER: Hitchcock's screen version of Frederick Knott's stage hit casts Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings. She loves Cummings.

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE: Based on the novel by James M. Cain, this film noir stars John Garfield and Lana Turner. Murder is the case in this collection of classic mysteries.

Included here are THE MALTESE FALCON (1941), THE BIG SLEEP (1946), DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954), and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946). Please see individual titles for complete synopsis information.