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My Writing Will Never Be as Good as Charles Willeford's
But I keep on writing anyway.
By
Chip Mosher
| July 3, 2020
On the Endless Symbolism of
Jaws
, Which Owes Its Dark Soul to
Moby Dick
Olivia Rutigliano discusses punishment, redemption, and fate in her favorite movie of all time.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| July 2, 2020
P. D. James: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
She refined the crime novel to its dark, poetic core and created a roster of iconic detectives along the way.
By
Neil Nyren
| July 2, 2020
Crime Fiction Trains Us for Crisis
"Through crime fiction, we have faced all manner of peril, defended the unjustly accused, protected intended victims."
By
Sulari Gentill
| July 2, 2020
How the Demolition of the Last Great Borscht Belt Resort Inspired a Catskills Mystery
A novelist returns to her hometown and says goodbye to an icon.
By
Kaitlyn Dunnett
| July 1, 2020
Discovering the Women Authors Behind Hitchcock's Movies
How reading Patricia Highsmith and Daphne Du Maurier changed my understanding of the Master of Suspense.
By
Leah Konen
| June 30, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music
By
S.W. Lauden
| June 29, 2020
Patricia Highsmith: Preying on Our Minds
By
Sarah Hilary
| June 26, 2020
The Great Muppet Caper
Is the Loveliest Crime Movie Ever
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| June 26, 2020
The Uncanny Appeal of Sole Survivor Stories
We weren't meant to fly, but we do. Stories of crash survivors speak to something primitive—and mysterious—in us.
By
Richard Farrell
| June 25, 2020
How Women Writers Are Transforming Hardboiled Noir
These authors are using noir to capture a new era's zeitgeist.
By
Shelley Blanton-Stroud
| June 22, 2020
The Uneasy Noirs of
Stephen King
From Bachman to The Outsider, King revels in subtly subverting the rules of mystery.
By
Nick Kolakowski
| June 22, 2020
Can You Really Separate Edgar Allan Poe's Work from His Life?
Sarah Weinman on "the Gordian knot holding together Poe's tumultuous life and fragmented personality with his body of work"—and an audacious biography.
By
Sarah Weinman
| June 19, 2020
How to Write Legal Thrillers That Won't Drive Lawyers Crazy with Mistakes and Inventions
I Object...To Unrealistic Courtroom Drama
By
Craig Pittman
| June 19, 2020
Virginia Kellogg: The Forgotten Screenwriter Behind A String of Classic Noirs
She wrote some of the greatest crime movies in Hollywood's Golden Age. Today, we know almost nothing about her.
By
Chris McGinley
| June 19, 2020
Perry Mason and the Case of the Wildly Successful, Perpetually Restless Author
Erle Stanley Gardner had an idea for a lawyer who liked to brawl on behalf of the little guy. 170 million copies later, he had an icon.
By
Lee Randall
| June 18, 2020
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