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How Crime Writers Can Reimagine Public Safety Without Police

How Crime Writers Can Reimagine Public Safety Without Police

"The next wave of crime fiction could help shape the public imagination of what a world where police weren’t in charge of public safety could look like."

By Amy Suiter Clarke | April 20, 2021

Milan: Italy’s Capital of Style Goes Noir

Milan: Italy’s Capital of Style Goes Noir

Milan is Italy's capital of industry and fashion. It also has a long tradition of crime novels that explore the city's underbelly.

By Paul French | April 19, 2021

Resurrecting Edgar Allan Poe While Continuously Disappointing My Mother

Resurrecting Edgar Allan Poe While Continuously Disappointing My Mother

Poe's timeless themes and horrors translate pretty well to a modern YA setting, it turns out.

By Mindy McGinnis | April 19, 2021

How Do You Keep A Long-Running Series Fresh? The Secret Is Character

How Do You Keep A Long-Running Series Fresh? The Secret Is Character

C.S. Harris, author of the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries, on the joys of following characters' lives far beyond the pages of a single book.

By C.S. Harris | April 19, 2021

Arthur Conan Doyle's <em>The Sign of the Four</em> and Oscar Wilde's <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em> Were Commissioned at the Same Dinner Party

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray Were Commissioned at the Same Dinner Party

On one of literature's most productive hangouts

By Olivia Rutigliano | April 16, 2021

On Cowardice and Crime Fiction

On Cowardice and Crime Fiction

Why do we need our characters to be heroes or villains, when most in real life are somewhere in between?

By Bridget Foley | April 16, 2021

Best Reviewed
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The Complex History of 'Gay Panic' and the 2001 Thriller The Deep End

By Matthew John Phillips | April 16, 2021

Confessions of a Librarian and Historical Mystery Novelist

By Will Thomas | April 16, 2021

Why Librarians Are Natural Born Detectives

By M.E. Hilliard | April 15, 2021

Why Crime Fiction Needs to Take on the World—and Change It

Why Crime Fiction Needs to Take on the World—and Change It

This isn't Philip Marlowe's world anymore. Crime authors need to take on international issues and aim for real change.

By Bryan Christy | April 15, 2021

Japan's Most Notorious Kidnapping Is Still Unsolved

Japan's Most Notorious Kidnapping Is Still Unsolved

In 1984, the president of the Ezaki Glico confectionary company was kidnapped. 65 hours later, he would manage to escape. But that was only the beginning of the story...

By Ferdison Cayetano | April 14, 2021

Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why <em>Rear Window</em> Remains the Director's Definitive Film

Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why Rear Window Remains the Director's Definitive Film

Hitchcock was a master of obsessive looking and daydreamed about filming acts of sexual voyeurism. In Rear Window, he found a new vision.

By Edward White | April 13, 2021

The Internet Is the New Panopticon: Suspense in the Age of Digital Surveillance

The Internet Is the New Panopticon: Suspense in the Age of Digital Surveillance

Self-policing when you don't know if someone's watching isn't new. But the diffuse nature of modern internet surveillance is.

By A. E. Osworth | April 13, 2021

What Happened to the Actors Who Were Performing the Night Lincoln Was Shot?

What Happened to the Actors Who Were Performing the Night Lincoln Was Shot?

For the actors performing at Ford's Theatre that night, the assassination was an act that would haunt them for decades.

By Mariah Fredericks | April 12, 2021

The Women of the OSS:<br> On The Pioneering American Spies of WWII

The Women of the OSS:
On The Pioneering American Spies of WWII

35% of those serving in the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, were women, and yet their stories have only begun to be told.

By Jane Healey | April 9, 2021

Why Traveling Through Fiction Is a Form of Ecotourism

Why Traveling Through Fiction Is a Form of Ecotourism

Nine International Novels to Offset Your Carbon Footprint

By Jeffrey Siger | April 9, 2021

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