• Craft

    Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby Turns 100. Time To Admit It’s Crime Fiction.

    Chistopher Chambers makes the case for reading Gatsby as noir

    April 18, 2025  By Christopher Chambers
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    Why Being the Child of a Crime Writer Made It Inevitable I Would Become One

    Abbi Waxman on a childhood of library visits and watching her mother at work.

    April 17, 2025  By Abbi Waxman
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    Why Are All the Fictional Kids Doing Crimes?

    "It’s not often talked about, but criminal activity is kind of a hallmark of YA as a whole"

    April 16, 2025  By C. L. Montblanc
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    Max Allan Collins on Continuing the Work of Dashiell Hammett

    See a cover reveal and read the afterword for the upcoming "Return of the Maltese Falcon"

    April 15, 2025  By Max Allan Collins
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    Robert Jackson Bennett On Crafting a Fantasy Murder Mystery

    "It seems a curious choice, I suppose, to take a world of such huge stakes and instead focus on the small things"

    April 14, 2025  By Robert Jackson Bennett
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    Jonathan Ames on Macdonald, Westlake, and Bringing a Touch of Buddhism to the Private Eye Novel

    Tom Nolan and Jonathan Ames in a wide-ranging discussion of crime fiction past and present.

    April 14, 2025  By Tom Nolan
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    The Mystery of the African Gothic Novel

    Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu on the long and satisfying process of decoupling horror fiction from colonialist fears

    April 11, 2025  By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
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    A Duty of Care: Barbara Early on Doing Justice to Jessica Fletcher

    Checking in with the author of the new, 'Rear Window' inspired 'Murder, She Wrote' mystery.

    April 11, 2025  By John B. Valeri
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    Eric Rickstad and Don Winslow on Suspense, Serial Killers, and Dismantling Pop Culture Myths

    Authors in conversation.

    April 10, 2025  By Don Winslow
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    Lost Grandeur: Decaying Settings in Fiction         

    "There’s just something about the feeling of a place that has been deeply neglected..."

    April 9, 2025  By C.J. Dotson
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