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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 23

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 23

    Vertigo (1958)

    By Otto Penzler | March 31, 2020

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

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

    All the new shows and movies you need to get through a month of social distancing.

    By Dwyer Murphy | March 30, 2020

    The Crime Cinema Renaissance of 1990

    The Crime Cinema Renaissance of 1990

    30 years later, looking back at an epic year in crime movies.

    By Zach Vasquez | March 27, 2020

    The Artist Who Captured America's Most Dramatic Courtroom Moments—And Was Hounded by the FBI

    The Artist Who Captured America's Most Dramatic Courtroom Moments—And Was Hounded by the FBI

    The life, work, and strange times of Arnold Mesches

    By Alix Lambert | March 25, 2020

    Quaint English Village Murder Mystery TV Shows with a Million Seasons, for Your Binge-Watching Pleasure During These Hard Times

    Quaint English Village Murder Mystery TV Shows with a Million Seasons, for Your Binge-Watching Pleasure During These Hard Times

    Come for the thatched roofs and bicycles...stay for the murder.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | March 24, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 24

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 24

    The Killers (1946)

    By Otto Penzler | March 23, 2020

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    <em>Briarpatch</em> May Just Be the Coolest Show on TV

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    The 19 Best Crime-Solving Writers in Fiction, Ranked

    The 19 Best Crime-Solving Writers in Fiction, Ranked

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    The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.

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    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    Dangerous partners, queer icons, and a story that became a crime novel.

    By Russ Thomas | March 5, 2020

    Cheerleaders, True Crime, and the American Dream

    Cheerleaders, True Crime, and the American Dream

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