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    A Short History of Classic TV’s Most Unusual Investigators

    In the late Sixties everyone wanted to create a TV detective. But how to make your fictional sleuth stand apart?

    January 8, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: The Woman Who Brought the Cuban-American Experience to Miami Noir

    In 1980s Miami, she was a mother of three who wanted to write crime novels. So she got herself a job as a private eye.

    January 8, 2021  By Craig Pittman
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    The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021

    89 mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels to get you through the year.

    January 7, 2021  By Molly Odintz
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    My First Thriller: Lawrence Block

    Sixty years later, Block says writing midcentury erotica was an "ideal apprenticeship" for a life in crime fiction.

    January 7, 2021  By Rick Pullen
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    Hollywoodland: The Best Neo-Noir You Probably Haven't Seen

    Fifty years later, the investigation into the mysterious death of actor George Reeves, TV's Superman, still resonates.

    January 7, 2021  By Sabina Stent
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    Juana Barraza: The Woman Who Was Killing Mexico's Elderly Women

    Criminal Broads Presents: The Silent Lady

    January 7, 2021  By Tori Telfer
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    Irving "Gangi" Cohen: The Man Who Escaped Murder, Inc. and Hid Out in the Movies

    Nobody saw Cohen back in Brooklyn. Until a few gangsters went to the movies and saw their old colleague on the silver screen.

    January 6, 2021  By Michael Cannell
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    PI Storytelling Through the Ages: Books, Blogs and Podcasts by Real Private Eyes

    If you want to stalk real private investigators and learn their secrets, all you have to do is read, listen, and subscribe.

    January 6, 2021  By Kim Green
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    10 Novels You Should Read This January

    The month's best in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    January 5, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Hemingway's Politics Were No Secret—Just Read His Only Crime Novel

    To Have and Have Not, Hemingway's patchwork Depression-era crime novel, was the story of one man's radicalization.

    January 5, 2021  By David Masciotra
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