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Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal Data Analyst
"While the cops are in the wireroom listening live for the street hustle, I’m at my desk with my herbal tea, listening to recorded calls. Tracing the money."
By
Brian Selfon
| October 14, 2020
How Edward Hopper’s Stony Blonde Became a Noir Icon
On The Femme Fatale Who Flipped the Script
By
Stephanie Kane
| October 14, 2020
In crime fiction, anyone can be a murderer. That's what's so great about it.
Lisa Jewell explores toxic masculinity in her latest thriller, but takes a stand for equal opportunity killing in the genre at large.
By
Lisa Jewell
| October 13, 2020
No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Mid-century pulps featuring women in love were meant to titillate straight men, but soon found their way to a lesbian audience desperate for representation.
By
Chloe Maveal
| October 12, 2020
The Moral Morass of the Slasher: Revisiting The Strangely Slapstick Horror of
Freddy's Dead
If horror exists to reinforce the status quo, then how did we end up rooting for Freddy?
By
Paul Michael Anderson
| October 9, 2020
Chandler and the Fox: The Mid-Century Correspondence Between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox
Chandler's letters to a younger crime writer offer a revealing—and often ugly—glimpse into his later years.
By
Curtis Evans
| October 8, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Strange Poetry of a Notorious Gangster's Last Words
By
Michael Cannell
| October 8, 2020
Memories of an Accidental Mystery Writer
By
Sherry Thomas
| October 8, 2020
The Strange History of Mickey Spillane and New Zealand's "Jukebox Killer"
By
Andrew Nette
| October 7, 2020
Thoroughly Modern Hauntings: How Ghost Stories Keep Finding New Ways to Scare Us
From
The Ring
to
The Host
, modern technology has only made horror stories scarier.
By
Frazer Lee
| October 7, 2020
Meet Catherine Louisa Pirkis, creator of the 19th century's most progressive lady detective character
Her protagonist, Loveday Brooke, was an anomaly amid the Victorian lady detective literary craze, for many reasons—including simply for having been created by a woman.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| October 6, 2020
Why I'm Proud to Have My Books Called "Crime Fiction"
For poor folks, crime is sometimes the only option.
By
Bryn Greenwood
| October 6, 2020
Adventures in Shark Cage Diving
Ecotourists looking for extreme thrills have embraced cage diving—but how do sharks feel about it?
By
Sara E. Johnson
| October 6, 2020
Walking the Hybrid Tightrope with Romantic Suspense
How do authors pull off the tricky balance of action and amore?
By
Irene Hannon
| October 5, 2020
Houdini, Escapist Fiction and The Role of Art
Why do some draw a line between literary art and escapist fiction?
By
Lonnie Busch
| October 5, 2020
The Strange Life and Mysterious Disappearance of a Very American Painting
Craig Johnson on Custer, and the painting that ornamented barroom walls across America, then vanished.
By
Craig Johnson
| October 2, 2020
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