• Crime in History

    The Many Sins of
    Maurice E. Balk

    Curtis Evans looks back on a man who was a preacher, producer, publisher, and plagiarist. And that's just the short version.

    May 25, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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    Charles Addams Drew the Credits for Murder By Death

    The Neil Simon murder mystery movie has a beautifully-illustrated opening. (The rest of the movie has issues.)

    February 10, 2023  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Kwame Dawes on The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Dawes, the great poet and critic, reflects on the legacy of the rhetorician and abolitionist Douglass, in the introduction to a new edition of his monumental autobiography

    February 2, 2023  By Kwame Dawes
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    What did Shakespeare mean when he wrote "let's kill all the lawyers?"

    It's more complicated than you might think!

    January 26, 2023  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    On the 1981 Wonderland Murders and the 2003 film that reconstructs its events

    Five people were killed in a Los Angeles suburb on July 1st, 1981. An unforgettable film told the story.

    August 19, 2022  By Sabina Stent
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    Looking back on one of the scariest serial-killer films ever made, 10 Rillington Place

    In the 1971 British film, Richard Attenborough gives a brilliant, terrifying performance as real-life murderer John Christie

    April 15, 2022  By Julia Sirmons
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    A Brief History of Strychnine, the Poison of Choice for Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Scores More—But Why?

    Neil Bradbury on mystery's favorite silent killer.

    February 10, 2022  By Neil Bradbury
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    On Dime Novels, Sensation Stories, and the First Appearance of Old Sleuth

    "He’s not, by the way, a sleuth—his name is Sleuth."

    December 14, 2021  By Henry Stewart
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    On the mystery novel written by A.A. Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh

    In 1922, he published a clever locked-room whodunnit that caught the attention of Raymond Chandler.

    November 11, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Ben and Stella Dickson: From Outlaws to Folk Heroes

    Bonnie and Clyde weren't the only couple robbing banks and capturing hearts in the 1930s.

    November 3, 2021  By Dietrich Kalteis
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