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    An Appreciation of Genre-Breaking Mysteries

    An Appreciation of Genre-Breaking Mysteries

    These books start out as noir, then take sharp left turn...

    By Nick Mamatas | November 9, 2021

    How to Use the Environment of a Novel to Enhance Suspense

    How to Use the Environment of a Novel to Enhance Suspense

    Sometimes the setting really is a character in itself. But how do you get there?

    By Alice Henderson | November 9, 2021

    Rex Pickett On The Strange Experience of Donating His Papers To The Archives

    Rex Pickett On The Strange Experience of Donating His Papers To The Archives

    When the author of Sideways sent his papers off to be catalogued, he never expected to find inspiration for his next novel.

    By Rex Pickett | November 9, 2021

    Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50

    Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50

    "The soft-boiled genre is embedded firmly between the cozy and the hard-boiled, like middle-aged and elder women ensconced between siren and senior."

    By Gabrielle St. George | November 8, 2021

    The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

    The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

    What makes crime stories so therapeutic? Writer and family counselor Lynne Reeves has some theories.

    By Lynne Reeves | November 8, 2021

    What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

    What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

    A Christie Curriculum

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    How Crime Fiction Can Help Us Understand The Many Layers of Violence in Society

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    On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' <em>Turn of the Screw</em>

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    Five Eerie Tales of Folk Horror

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