Home Articles posted by J. Kingston Pierce

J. Kingston Pierce

J. Kingston Pierce
J. Kingston Pierce is a longtime Seattle journalist, whose addiction to crime, mystery, and thriller fiction is clearly beyond curing. In addition to editing The Rap Sheet (http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/), a blog focused on crime fiction, he writes the book design-oriented blog Killer Covers (http://killercoversoftheweek.blogspot.com/) and is a columnist for Down & Out: The Magazine.


Tom Nolan on the Enduring Legacy of Ross Macdonald

And Why the Noir Icon's Work Still Resonates So Powerfully

April 12, 2019  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

Ross Macdonald's ‘The Moving Target': A History in 25 Covers

70 Years of Lew Archer, Post-War America's "New-Type" Detective

April 11, 2019  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

Robert McGinnis: A Life in Paperback Art

93 Years & Thousands of Paintings from a "Pop Culture Rembrandt"

February 1, 2019  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

When Dell Flipped on Mystery Readers

How a Publisher and Two Legendary Bookstores Made Mysteries into Jigsaw Puzzles

January 11, 2019  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

A Brief History of Reporters in Crime Fiction

30 Novels and a Proud Tradition of Sleuths and Scribes

November 15, 2018  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

9 Mysteries Set in The
Immediate Aftermath of WWI

100 Years After, Crime Fiction is Still Obsessed with the Great War

November 9, 2018  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

Dell Mapbacks: A History

The Art of the Back Cover Murder Mystery

August 2, 2018  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

The Many Faces of Philip Marlowe

The Iconic PI Is Revived and Reinterpreted, Again and Again

July 26, 2018  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

When Presidents Go Sleuthing

23 Classics of Presidential Mysteries and Thrillers

June 4, 2018  By J. Kingston Pierce
0

12 Cover Artists Every Vintage Crime Lover Should Know

Celebrating the Artists Who Illuminated Classic Crime

May 21, 2018  By J. Kingston Pierce
0