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    Rediscovering the Golden Age Detective Novels of Dostoevsky Translator David Magarshack

    Martin Edwards investigates the influence of the great Russian novelist on Magarshack's work, and the world of British mystery

    January 22, 2025  By Martin Edwards

    Why These Crimes Against Women in 1950s London Captured a Novelist's Imagination

    S.J. Bennett on the crimes that resonated across decades.

    January 22, 2025  By S.J. Bennett

    Journalism’s Secret Order of the Occult Hand

    Keith Roysdon on a mysterious practice dating back centuries – or at least to 1965.

    January 22, 2025  By Keith Roysdon

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    From Ruth Ware's forthcoming novel, The Woman in Suite 11


    An excerpt from Eli Cranor's new novel, Mississippi Blue 42


    From Victoria Dowd's latest novel, Death in the Aviary, forthcoming from Datura in September 2025.


    From Jussi Adler-Olsen's latest novel, Locked In, translated by Caroline Waight