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    The Mostly Forgotten Irish Crime Novelist at the Center of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

    On the enormously influential works of a Golden Age innovator.

    June 15, 2020  By Shane Mawe
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #15

    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

    June 15, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    Bone, Blood & Bigots: On 'The Liberation of L.B. Jones'

    A 1965 novel about racial injustice and police brutality in the Deep South was hailed by critics and made into a major movie. The story would haunt its author until the bitter end.

    June 11, 2020  By Michael Gonzales
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    Good Girls, Weeds, And The Problem with Suburban Criminality on Screen

    They're not doing it for their families. They're doing it for the ideals of middle-class consumerism.

    June 11, 2020  By Molly Odintz
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    The Best Way to Know an Author Is Through Their Characters

    Bestselling Crime Writer Iris Johansen On Her Series Protagonist, Eve Duncan, and the Relationships That Define Her Work

    June 11, 2020  By Iris Johansen
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    The 2020 Anthony Award Nominees Have Been Announced

    A round of applause for the nominees!

    June 10, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

    On the rise of the "Professional Beauty"

    June 10, 2020  By Laurie R. King
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #16

    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    June 10, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    On Charles Dickens' Devious, Hypocritical "Nice Guy" Cop

    Meet the insidious Mr. Bucket, who embodies Dickens' misgivings about the police force he once enthusiastically supported

    June 9, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    A Small Nevada Town Inspires a Crime Novel and a Personal Reckoning

    Envy and relief in small town America.

    June 9, 2020  By Heather Young
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