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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.
1970s Crime Fiction
and The Incredible Rise of 'Regional' Noir
In the 1970s and 80s, Boston, Seattle, Detroit, and other regional cities became the new capitals of crime fiction.
Tom Nolan on the Enduring Legacy of Ross Macdonald
And Why the Noir Icon's Work Still Resonates So Powerfully
Ross Macdonald's ‘The Moving Target': A History in 25 Covers
70 Years of Lew Archer, Post-War America's "New-Type" Detective
Robert McGinnis: A Life in Paperback Art
93 Years & Thousands of Paintings from a "Pop Culture Rembrandt"
When Dell Flipped on Mystery Readers
How a Publisher and Two Legendary Bookstores Made Mysteries into Jigsaw Puzzles
A Brief History of Reporters in Crime Fiction
30 Novels and a Proud Tradition of Sleuths and Scribes
9 Mysteries Set in The
Immediate Aftermath of WWI
100 Years After, Crime Fiction is Still Obsessed with the Great War
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