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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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