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Three different versions of George M. Cohan's comedic adaptation of Charlie Chan creator Earl Derr Biggers mystery classic, from three different Hollywood eras.

Beckett finds herself in the Captain2s chair while Castle makes the leap from author to full-blown Private Investigator. The season begins with a bang as a call from a mysterious stranger puts Beckett on the run and sets off an explosive chain of events. The action gets even more exciting, and a little crazy, when Castle2s daughter, Alexis, joins her father to solve the case of a lifetime.

This season finds Castle working to identify Beckett's shooter while Beckett Struggles to recover from her near-death experience. They also tackle some New York City's most interesting new cases.

An aspiring American writer living in Paris comes into unexpected wealth and ditches his hard-working lifestyle for a lavish yet self-destructive spending spree that threatens to cost him all the things that really matter to him.

When his ultra-wealthy neighbor in the Hamptons builds an obnoxious mega-mansion next door, grumpy retired novelist Harry March concocts an elaborate scheme for revenge that is destined to go hilariously awry.

In the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh, Detective Matilda Stone investigates crimes with the aid or, often, meddling of her three mystery-writing aunts, who raised her from childhood. Together, they look into a murder at a health spa, a killing in the contemporary art world, and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. Matilda has decidedly less success with her personal affairs, continuing to pine for Dr. Daniel Lynch even as she begins...

The story of a famous author who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to manage the women, along with her literary agent, who is impatient to find out about her next book.

Running from his emotional baggage, a novelist and writer for a New York magazine moonlights as an unlicensed private detective.

A drama that charts the emotional odyssey of a struggling novelist whose life is turned upside down one wintry night following a fatal car accident. The incident sets him on a soul searching, decades long journey towards redemption, a quest that profoundly touches the lives of both his girlfriend and the accident victim's mother.

Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards.