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Brew a Cuppa and Relax With These 12 Cozy Murder Mysteries

The most important rule of the cozy murder mystery is simple: no bummers.

There’s the original Thin Man movie (see below); the Suchet-starring “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” and “The Theft of the Royal Ruby”; the Jeremy Brett-as-Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”; the many Xmas eps of Bones, Monk, Murder She Wrote, Castle, Veronica Mars, NCIS, The X-Files; and, of course, Who Killed Santa? Most episodes of the procedural feature bodies too decayed or dismembered for normal identification techniques, necessitating the involvement of Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and her team of Squints from the Jeffersonian Institution. The cult film stars Tim Curry, Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn, the lead singer of punk band Fear, and more as the characters from the classic board game.

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