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How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids
In a tumultuous era, a kids mystery show stirred up the old questions—and the atmosphere—of gothic storytelling.
By
Eleni Theodoropoulos
| September 13, 2019
The Femme Fatale: Subverting and Complicating a Noir Trope
How crime novels—and two high-profile TV adaptations—are challenging our ideas about female criminality.
By
John Copenhaver
| September 13, 2019
Graphic Novels and Social Justice: A Primer
On learning to write thrillers about social issues from comic books.
By
John Vercher
| September 12, 2019
A Conversation About Interrogating Our True Crime Obsessions
Criminal Broads Presents: An interview with Rachel Monroe, author of
Savage Appetites
By
Tori Telfer
| September 12, 2019
In Defense of The Sheriff of Nottingham
Or, how to write villains with empathy (but no excuses)
By
Nathan Makaryk
| September 12, 2019
4 Iconic Crime Protagonists Who Are Even More Memorable Than Their Stories
On character being more affecting than plot
By
Thomas Kies
| September 11, 2019
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Best 1990s Rom-Coms Are Detective Stories in Disguise
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| September 10, 2019
The Long, Proud Tradition of Jazz-Infused Crime Novels
By
Alex Segura
| September 9, 2019
Thrillers Revisit the
First Gulf War
By
Siri Mitchell
| September 9, 2019
The Crime-Solving, Plant-Savvy Scientists at the Cutting Edge of a New Forensics
Forensic ecologists make it their life's work to study pollen grains and microscopic spores left behind at crime scenes.
By
Patricia Wiltshire
| September 9, 2019
Your Guide to the Essential Crime TV of September 2019
The best thrillers, noir, and true crime docs arriving this month.
By
Camille LeBlanc
| September 6, 2019
The Strange Cultural Currency of Art Theft
Why does art rise in value simply because it's been stolen before?
By
Jamie Mason
| September 6, 2019
7 Essential Contagion Novels
Lethal microbes, zombie plagues, incompetent bureaucracies and other widespread pestilences
By
David Koepp
| September 5, 2019
True Crime Podcasts
Done Right
A Look At 7 Podcasts That Don't Sacrifice Ethics for Storytelling
By
Stephanie Van Schilt
| September 5, 2019
Great Noir Lives—and Dies—on Dialogue
On the most essential, often overlooked, element of the genre
By
A.B. Jewell
| September 4, 2019
An Ode to Podcasts: Dispatches from PodCon 2019
On Podcon, the podcast convention that was once, and shall ne'er be again.
By
Emily Stein
| September 4, 2019
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