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100 Years Ago, the World's Biggest Action Star Was a Woman Named Pearl
The forgotten history of "Fearless Peerless Pearl" and the brief heyday of silent movie action heroines.
By
Radha Vatsal
| February 12, 2020
The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series
Two authors—working from opposite ends of Florida—bring epic noir series to a close, and live to tell the tale.
By
Steph Post
| February 12, 2020
Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #31
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
By
Otto Penzler
| February 12, 2020
Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think
In noir, as in fantasy, it's all about finding the right details.
By
Kelly Braffet
| February 11, 2020
Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #32
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
By
Otto Penzler
| February 11, 2020
Stolen Art, Nazis, and the Eternal Search for Justice
75 years after the end of WWII, the search for stolen art continues.
By
Lawrence Dudley
| February 10, 2020
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Otto Penzler
| February 10, 2020
'The Outsider' Is a Classic Monster Story. So Why Disguise It as a Detective Show?
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| February 7, 2020
American Dirt
Is The Latest Shot Fired in the Genre Wars
By
Aya de Leon
| February 7, 2020
The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters
Readers want flaws. Lots of them. They make the stories human.
By
Christina McDonald
| February 7, 2020
On the Trail of Hollywood's Stolen Oscars
Olivia Rutigliano navigates the strange, semi-secret marketplace for Hollywood's most coveted statues.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| February 5, 2020
My Uncle, The Librarian-Spy
In 1943, a Harvard librarian was quietly recruited by the OSS to save the scattered books of Europe.
By
Kathy Peiss
| February 5, 2020
How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of
Chinatown
The strange, unlikely events in 1969 that set Robert Towne on a course to write one of the greatest films ever made.
By
Sam Wasson
| February 4, 2020
Ten Books Where the Setting Is a Character
From 1950s L.A. to Savannah's iconic squares, these books bring time and place alive in unforgettable ways.
By
Sarah Pinborough
| February 4, 2020
Carl Hiaasen: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
Discover the wild, corrupt, uproarious world of Hiaasen's Florida.
By
Neil Nyren
| January 30, 2020
The Strange Rural Noir of Wilma Dykeman’s
The Tall Woman
Rediscovering A Lost Classic of Mid-Century Literature
By
Chris McGinley
| January 29, 2020
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