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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 21

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 21

    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

    By Otto Penzler | April 6, 2020

    Blurring the Lines Between Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

    Blurring the Lines Between Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

    True crime becoming entertainment has enormous effects on the justice system.

    By Scarlett Harris | April 6, 2020

    Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history.

    Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history.

    Looking back on 100 years of the Queen of Crime.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 3, 2020

    Border Stories: A Guide to the Novels of Don Winslow

    Border Stories: A Guide to the Novels of Don Winslow

    The evolution of a career in crime fiction, from surf noir to borderland epics.

    By Bruce Riordan | April 3, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 22

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 22

    The Usual Suspects (1995)

    By Otto Penzler | April 3, 2020

    Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.

    Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.

    What a different movie that would have been.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 2, 2020

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    By Torrey Crim | March 31, 2020

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

    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

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    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

    Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford: Hollywood's Greatest Feud

    Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford: Hollywood's Greatest Feud

    On the set of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962.

    By Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan | March 16, 2020

    <em>Spenser: Confidential</em> Isn’t Your Father’s Spenser. Hell, It Isn’t Even Robert B. Parker’s Spenser.

    Spenser: Confidential Isn’t Your Father’s Spenser. Hell, It Isn’t Even Robert B. Parker’s Spenser.

    A new look and a new era for Boston's legendary private eye.

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