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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #16

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #16

    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    By Otto Penzler | June 10, 2020

    On Charles Dickens' Devious, Hypocritical

    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

    By Olivia Rutigliano | June 9, 2020

    John Logan, Creator of Penny Dreadful, on His New Spinoff Series, City of Angels

    John Logan, Creator of Penny Dreadful, on His New Spinoff Series, City of Angels

    "You can't imagine how happy I am to be writing a proper crime story!"

    By Michael Barson | June 5, 2020

    My First Thriller: <br>Tess Gerritsen

    My First Thriller:
    Tess Gerritsen

    How the creator of Rizzoli & Isles went from working late-night hospital shifts in Honolulu to writing bestselling thrillers.

    By Rick Pullen | June 4, 2020

    Falling in Love with <em>The Rockford Files</em>—All Over Again

    Falling in Love with The Rockford Files—All Over Again

    James Garner and 'The Rockford Files' didn’t just humanize the TV private detective; for some, the show was a kind of guide to life.

    By Nathan Ward | June 4, 2020

    Your Guide to What's Streaming in June: Crime Edition

    Your Guide to What's Streaming in June: Crime Edition

    Perry Mason, international espionage, and more HBO shows that you can reasonably get through in one month.

    By Dwyer Murphy | June 3, 2020

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    The Copyright Battle that Gave Cinematic Life to Dracula

    By Olivia Rutigliano | May 26, 2020

    What Jessica Fletcher Is Reading During the Quarantine

    By Jessica Fletcher | May 26, 2020

    The Great Elmore Leonard Renaissance of the Late ‘90s

    By Zach Vasquez | May 22, 2020

    John Waters: Kissin’ Cousin of Crime

    John Waters: Kissin’ Cousin of Crime

    A Crime Reader's Guide to the Pope of Trash

    By Thomas Pluck | May 21, 2020

    Read Bong Joon Ho's <em>Parasite</em> as a Graphic Novel in Storyboards

    Read Bong Joon Ho's Parasite as a Graphic Novel in Storyboards

    It's going to change the way you watch the movie.

    By Bong Joon Ho | May 20, 2020

    Victorians Were Obsessed with the Idea that George Eliot Had Two Different-Sized Hands

    Victorians Were Obsessed with the Idea that George Eliot Had Two Different-Sized Hands

    Presenting one of the 19th century's most random mysteries, and the modern scholar who solved it.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | May 19, 2020

    The Most Iconic Detective Sidekicks, Ranked

    The Most Iconic Detective Sidekicks, Ranked

    45 of the greatest detective-adjacent crime-solvers in history.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | May 14, 2020

    The Rise of the Female Stalker in Fiction and Film

    The Rise of the Female Stalker in Fiction and Film

    From Single White Female to Ingrid Goes West, a brief history of fictional takes on female stalkers.

    By Liv Constantine | May 13, 2020

    Before there was Jessica Fletcher, there were the Snoop Sisters

    Before there was Jessica Fletcher, there were the Snoop Sisters

    That's Ernesta Snoop and Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson, to you.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | May 13, 2020

    Scott Turow on the One Character Who Keeps Coming Back to Him, Again and Again

    Scott Turow on the One Character Who Keeps Coming Back to Him, Again and Again

    On Kindle County, Sandy Stern, and a career in novels.

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