Here’s what’s happening in the world of mystery news: Knives Out meets Sesame Street, Kermit in a noir graphic novel, disaster gays solve crime, Apple TV+ pulls another crime show, and more!

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The world I want to live in!

Benoit Blanc (Knives Out) visited Sesame Street to solve a mystery. And it’s a super important mystery: someone ate Cookie Monster’s pie! You can watch ‘Forks Out’: A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery here. And you can watch the new season of Sesame Street on Netflix.

Speaking of muppets!

I am deeply excited for a graphic novel series where the Muppet characters solve crime in noir style! “The Muppets Noir #1 will be written and illustrated by Roger Langridge. The one-shot special issue is set for a February 2026 release.”

Disaster gays solve crime? Sold!

I’ve been a huge fan of Lev A.C. Rosen since Jack of Hearts and was thrilled when he came over to the mystery genre with his series starter Lavender House. All of that is to say that I was going to read this book anyways, but if I didn’t know Rosen’s work, he absolutely would have sold me with the title The Disaster Gay Detective Agency.

Apple TV+ pulls another show before its release.

Earlier this year Apple TV+ pulled the series Savant—about a journalist infiltrating white nationalist groups to stop terrorist attacks— right before its premiere. Now, they’ve pulled The Hunt a month before its premiere because of plagiarism accusations. Specifically, “The Hunt appears to be an uncredited direct adaptation of Douglas Fairbairn’s 1973 novel Shoot.”

Daniel Woodrell, who coined the term “country noir”, has died.

“Woodrell wrote Winter’s Bone in 2006, about a teen girl in the Missouri Ozarks looking for her missing father. The 2010 film adaptation launched the career of Jennifer Lawrence.” You can read Vulture’s obit here.

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