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    Rex Stout: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    Rex Stout: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, and a Crime Fiction Legend

    By Neil Nyren | August 23, 2019

    Now Streaming in Crime: August

    Now Streaming in Crime: August

    Your Guide to the Best Noir, Mystery, and Thrillers Now Streaming

    By Camille LeBlanc | August 23, 2019

    1970s Crime Fiction <br>and The Incredible Rise of 'Regional' Noir

    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.

    By J. Kingston Pierce | August 22, 2019

    The 7 Most Suspenseful Jury Verdicts In Literature and Film

    The 7 Most Suspenseful Jury Verdicts In Literature and Film

    For courtroom drama, there's no topping a good jury verdict.

    By Hank Phillippi Ryan | August 21, 2019

    August's Best New Action Thrillers

    August's Best New Action Thrillers

    7 Big Books to Close out Summer Thriller Season

    By Ryan Steck | August 21, 2019

    10 Great Books That Defy All Genre Labels

    10 Great Books That Defy All Genre Labels

    What is a "crime" book, anyway?

    By Rob Hart | August 20, 2019

    Best Reviewed
    Books of the Week

    • Will and Attention: A Memoir
    • The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence
    • Luna, Phoenix, Queen
    • Music Against the Night
    • Peck & Peck
    • The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
    • The End of Everything
    • Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science
    • American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs
    • Solace House

    The Evolution of Criminal Profiling in Fiction

    By CrimeReads | August 20, 2019

    The Bloody Benders: America's First Family of Serial Killers

    By Nile Cappello | August 19, 2019

    On Learning to Shoot a Gun

    By Lisa Sandlin | August 19, 2019

    Why <em>Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood</em> is a Child's-Eye View of the 1960s

    Why Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a Child's-Eye View of the 1960s

    The film reads 60s counterculture as attacking the entertainment beloved by the era's children—and thus attacking childhood itself.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | August 16, 2019

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #40

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #40

    L.A. Confidential (1997)

    By Otto Penzler | August 16, 2019

    Squeaky Fromme: Charlie's Angel

    Squeaky Fromme: Charlie's Angel

    Criminal Broads Presents Lynette Fromme, The Manson Girl Who Wasn't There

    By Tori Telfer | August 14, 2019

    1970s Noir: The Cult Classics

    1970s Noir: The Cult Classics

    Time to revisit some of the most criminally underappreciated neo-noir of the 70s.

    By Howard Michael Gould | August 14, 2019

    Lawyers in Fiction: It's Time to Question the Archetype

    Lawyers in Fiction: It's Time to Question the Archetype

    From Perry Mason to Atticus Finch to Saul Goodman, what do our fictional lawyers tell us about ourselves?

    By Christopher Brown | August 14, 2019

    The Doctor Is In: How Psychologists Advance a Psychological Thriller

    The Doctor Is In: How Psychologists Advance a Psychological Thriller

    6 Novels Featuring Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Key Roles

    By Matthew Farrell | August 14, 2019

    The Unsung Godfather of <br>Film Noir

    The Unsung Godfather of
    Film Noir

    Noir fans revere Out of the Past. But almost nobody talks about the man behind the classic story.

    By David Handler | August 13, 2019

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