"Millions watch and love the great television detectives, but no one has studied why...until now. Ric Meyers, a longtime scholar of the subject, spent five years investigating and interviewing the most successful and most powerful creative minds in Hollywood to write the most entertaining, surprising, and informative book on the TV mystery genre. From their austere and sometimes hilarious beginnings, through the formative brilliance of the original Dragnet, the antics of 77 Sunset Strip, and the cool noir of Peter Gunn, the author tells how the shows were created and why they became hits."--Back Cover.