• Essays

    A Magician's Contract Between Reader and Writer: Rules for Delivering a Whodunit

    Hazell Ward on S.S. Van Dine, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," and Playing with Audience Expectations

    July 30, 2025  By Hazell Ward
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    Paranormal Craft: The Rules of Incorporating Supernatural Elements into Mystery Stories

    Juliet Blackwell Offers Some Guidelines for Writing the Literary Uncanny

    July 29, 2025  By Juliet Blackwell
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    In Borderlands of Truth and Silence: Jennifer Givhan on Writing Mexicali Magical Realism

    The Author of "Salt Bones" Takes on Motherhood, Inherited Trauma, and Erasure

    July 29, 2025  By Jennifer Givhan
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    The Heart's Darkness: Mary Watson on the Real-Life Murder That Drew Her to Mysteries

    The Author of "The Cleaner" Mulls Clue, "Lord of the Flies," and a Formative Memory of Violence

    July 29, 2025  By Mary Watson
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    No Way Out: Using Locked-Room Mysteries to Explore Psychological Entrapment

    Kelsey Cox on Whodunits, Vulnerability, and Creating Literary Claustrophobia

    July 28, 2025  By Kelsey Cox
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    Simon Spurrier on The Best Crime Comics, and Why We Need More Crossover Readers

    Spurrier makes the case for bringing together readers of crime novel and crime comics.

    July 24, 2025  By Simon Spurrier
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    Agatha On Board: Boats in the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

    The Queen of Crime loved a good seafaring murder.

    July 23, 2025  By Naomi Kaye
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    Spies in Small Towns

    Jay S. Bell on the CIA's resettlement program and the small American towns playing host to highly valued intelligence assets.

    July 23, 2025  By Jay S. Bell
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    Buddies Like Spoiled Milk: Five Books That Feature Toxic Friendships

    Christina Dotson Raves Over These Rancid Pairings

    July 22, 2025  By Christina Dotson
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    The Dirty Work: The On-Going Romance Between Sex Work and Crime Fiction

    David Gordon on a long tradition of entanglement.

    July 22, 2025  By David Gordon
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