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How the Demolition of the Last Great Borscht Belt Resort Inspired a Catskills Mystery

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

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

Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music

Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music

The history of music is full of outlaws and criminals, killers and their victims, shady dealers and backstage dreamers...

By S.W. Lauden | June 29, 2020

Patricia Highsmith: Preying on Our Minds

Patricia Highsmith: Preying on Our Minds

Why reading Highsmith's novels resonates so deeply—and disturbingly—in unsettled times.

By Sarah Hilary | June 26, 2020

<em>The Great Muppet Caper</em> Is the Loveliest Crime Movie Ever

The Great Muppet Caper Is the Loveliest Crime Movie Ever

Four decades ago, a ragtag group of vaguely self-aware puppets solved the greatest jewel heist in the world, and it was wonderful.

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 26, 2020

The Uncanny Appeal of Sole Survivor Stories

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

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How to Write Legal Thrillers That Won't Drive Lawyers Crazy with Mistakes and Inventions

How to Write Legal Thrillers That Won't Drive Lawyers Crazy with Mistakes and Inventions

I Object...To Unrealistic Courtroom Drama

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Virginia Kellogg: The Forgotten Screenwriter Behind A String of Classic Noirs

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

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

Are We Only Capable of Writing Liars?

Are We Only Capable of Writing Liars?

An author reflects on an attempt to write a truthful narrator.

By Elizabeth Kay | June 18, 2020

Crime in a Tenured Position: <br>The Feminist Mysteries of Carolyn Heilbrun

Crime in a Tenured Position:
The Feminist Mysteries of Carolyn Heilbrun

As Amanda Cross, Carolyn Heilbrun used her Kate Fansler series to explore academia, politics, and modern womanhood.

By Marlowe Benn | June 17, 2020

India's Most Celebrated Film Director Was Also a Bestselling Detective Novelist

India's Most Celebrated Film Director Was Also a Bestselling Detective Novelist

Reflecting on the brilliant career of Satyajit Ray

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 17, 2020

How the Flavia de Luce Series Investigates the Traditional English Village Murder Mystery

How the Flavia de Luce Series Investigates the Traditional English Village Murder Mystery

On death, preservation, genius, detectives, villages, and eighteenth-century graveyard poems

By Olivia Rutigliano | June 16, 2020

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