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Your Queer Crime Summer Reading List

Your Queer Crime Summer Reading List

Check out these novels "if you’d like to imagine a better, more just world and enjoy some phenomenal queer mysteries in the process"

By Katharine Schellman | July 9, 2025

5 Christmas Mysteries To Get You Ready for the Holiday Season

5 Christmas Mysteries To Get You Ready for the Holiday Season

We can't get enough crime at the holidays.

By Katharine Schellman | October 23, 2023

Drinking, Dancing, and Breaking the Law: Nightlife in the Jazz Age

Drinking, Dancing, and Breaking the Law: Nightlife in the Jazz Age

Upscale speakeasies, working class bars, and a thriving queer subculture were all parts of going out during Prohibition.

By Katharine Schellman | June 8, 2023

Almost Two Centuries of Impossible Crimes: Locked Rooms in Detective Fiction

Almost Two Centuries of Impossible Crimes: Locked Rooms in Detective Fiction

Katharine Schellman on “the grandest game in the world.”

By Katharine Schellman | August 23, 2022

Who's Queer in Christie?

Who's Queer in Christie?

"Once you know what to look for...queer characters start peeking out of many of Christie’s mysteries."

By Katharine Schellman | June 7, 2022

Why Do American Crime Writers Love British Manors So Much?

Why Do American Crime Writers Love British Manors So Much?

An intercontinental, cross-generational obsession explained by one of its practitioners.

By Katharine Schellman | July 23, 2021

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