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How to Write an Effective Villain
Scouring classic thrillers for tips on how to write villains that will keep haunting readers long after the last page is read.
By
Paul Howarth
| June 8, 2021
Why the Life of a Radio DJ Is Perfectly Suited to Crime Fiction
Long nights, mysterious callers, and a fear of the dreaded 'dead air'
By
Michael Bradley
| June 8, 2021
Tangier: Spies, Smugglers, and Writers in the International City
Crime and the City visits Morocco's northern port, where there's a long legacy of art and intrigue.
By
Paul French
| June 7, 2021
The Unjustly Forgotten Crime Novels of John Sanford, Midcentury America's Radical Jewish Conscience
He was a lawyer, a novelist, a committed Communist, a progenitor of rural noir, and a blacklisted screenwriter. Through it all, John Sanford kept on reinventing himself.
By
Jack Mearns
| June 5, 2021
The Art of Balancing Multiple Mystery Series
J.A. Jance moves from one long-running series to another, and it turns out the characters sometimes have minds of their own.
By
J.A. Jance
| June 4, 2021
What Do Mystery Writers and Therapists Have in Common?
Therapists, like detectives, piece together clues and information in order to solve the mystery: that of a client's own dilemmas.
By
Philippa East
| June 4, 2021
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Whatever Happened to Elise De Viane? On The Mystery Woman in Dashiell Hammett’s 1931 Sexual Assault Case
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Curtis Evans
| June 3, 2021
Stopping for a Moment to Appreciate the Original 1961 film
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| June 3, 2021
A Translator Considers the Joys of Crime Fiction
By
Michael Meigs
| June 3, 2021
Finding Inspiration for Speculative Fiction in the History of Reproduction
On self-conception, virgin birth, and deep male anxieties.
By
Sara Flannery Murphy
| June 3, 2021
What Makes The Dark Side of Self-Help So Fascinating?
"I’m fairly certain that, if I was a sociopath and driven enough, I could build a little cult of my own."
By
C. L. Taylor
| June 3, 2021
The Silent Woman
From musician to muse to wife to sex doll—the savage remaking of Alma Mahler
By
Maria Hummel
| June 1, 2021
Tracing the Hidden History of Secret Paris
From medieval alchemists to 19th century illusionists, uncovering the mysteries of the past in the City of Light.
By
Gilles Legardinier
| May 31, 2021
On DNA and Crime Fiction
Modern genetic testing can reunite families, uncover secrets, diagnose diseases, catch real-life criminals—and, of course, provide endless plot ideas for fiction.
By
David Housewright
| May 31, 2021
We’re Drawn To Mysteries in Fiction Because Life Itself Is a Mystery
On learning about life through fictional mysteries.
By
Jess Dylan
| May 28, 2021
Gothic Tea: A Dark History of Tea in Fiction and Real Life
"The true tale of this botanical beverage is a dark and twisted chronicle..."
By
Debra Bokur
| May 28, 2021
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