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High Life: The Carnegie Deli Murders

High Life: The Carnegie Deli Murders

In 2001, Michael Gonzales visited the apartment of a hospitable actress and dealer. Soon it would be the site of a notorious murder.

By Michael Gonzales | November 5, 2020

How to Gracefully Subject Your Detectives to the Vicissitudes of Time

How to Gracefully Subject Your Detectives to the Vicissitudes of Time

"A series in which the protagonist ages with the years becomes in effect a long novel, the record of a life..."

By Dominic Martell | November 5, 2020

Erskine Childers: Gentleman, Spy Novelist, and Gunrunner for the IRA

Erskine Childers: Gentleman, Spy Novelist, and Gunrunner for the IRA

How did the aristocratic author of English’s first great spy novel end up dead in the Irish Civil War?

By H.B. Lyle | November 4, 2020

How the Discovery of a Rare Pink Diamond Led One Reporter into the World of Thrillers

How the Discovery of a Rare Pink Diamond Led One Reporter into the World of Thrillers

Matthew Hart wrote about diamonds and gold. One day, he got the call from Brazil—an 81-carater came out of the river.

By Matthew Hart | November 3, 2020

A Few Thoughts and Speculations on the State of Irish Crime Fiction

A Few Thoughts and Speculations on the State of Irish Crime Fiction

John Connolly on the current generation of Irish crime novelists and crime readers.

By John Connolly | November 3, 2020

In a Pandemic World, We're All Engaging in Speculative Fiction

In a Pandemic World, We're All Engaging in Speculative Fiction

Fiction writers have long tried to figure out how the world, and our relationship to it, might change after cataclysm.

By Ariel S. Winter | November 3, 2020

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The "Educated" Crime Novels of Cambridge

By Paul French | November 2, 2020

How a Peaceful Morning on the Lake Becomes a Murder Mystery

By W.L. Ripley | November 2, 2020

All the Famous Writers Who Have Reportedly Come Back as Ghosts

By CrimeReads | October 30, 2020

<em>Arsenic and Old Lace</em>, Frank Capra's

Arsenic and Old Lace, Frank Capra's "Halloween Tale of Brooklyn," Is the perfect film for the season

It has everything: serial killers, dead bodies, Peter Lorre, and a psychotic convict hiding out after an unfortunate plastic surgery accident that makes him look like Frankenstein's monster.

By Olivia Rutigliano | October 29, 2020

My First Thriller: Scott Turow

My First Thriller: Scott Turow

For eight years, he wrote in thirty minute bursts on a commuter train. Then, he had himself a blockbuster novel.

By Rick Pullen | October 29, 2020

My City of Crime—Real and Imagined

My City of Crime—Real and Imagined

Washington, D.C. is my hometown. But I had to consider the city anew when I started my series.

By Otho Eskin | October 28, 2020

Finding a Mystery in the Intersection of Past and Present in New York City

Finding a Mystery in the Intersection of Past and Present in New York City

"Suddenly that street or avenue you walk takes on new meaning. Inhabited by people who no longer exist. Or buildings long ago torn down and replaced. A story untold."

By Shelley Noble | October 28, 2020

Why Using Accurate Science in Your Fiction Is So Important

Why Using Accurate Science in Your Fiction Is So Important

Whether you're calculating escape velocity or tracking wolverines, these are the details that will keep readers engrossed.

By Alice Henderson | October 27, 2020

Western Noir: Smashing Together Two Genres, What Do You Get?

Western Noir: Smashing Together Two Genres, What Do You Get?

If the western is about delivering justice and noir is about the depths of the void, how can the two genres coexist?

By Nick Kolakowski | October 26, 2020

Rubem Fonseca: Modernist Crime Fiction's Reluctant Star

Rubem Fonseca: Modernist Crime Fiction's Reluctant Star

Fonseca captured the life of Rio de Janeiro like nobody else. Revisiting his work now, after his death, is an uncanny experience.

By Ela Bittencourt | October 23, 2020

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