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The New Wave of Private Eye Fiction
Today's PIs are more diverse and share community bonds. But the crime fiction world still has a long way to go to get out from the shadow of the loner white knight.
By
Halley Sutton
| May 1, 2020
The Bizarre Newspaper Hoax That Nearly Ruined Lizzie Borden
An old grudge between a detective and a reporter led to one of the strangest—and most damning—fake news stories of all-time.
By
Dean Jobb
| April 30, 2020
How Pop Culture Got It Wrong With Dissociative Identity Disorder
Searching for accurate portrayals of a complex disease in an age of exploitative media.
By
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
| April 30, 2020
Meet Nancy Wake: Socialite, Spy, and The Most Decorated Heroine of WWII
Her code name was The White Mouse, and she once killed a German soldier with her bare hands.
By
Imogen Kealey
| April 28, 2020
Tokyo Crime Novels: The Storms Beneath the Calm Surface
The long, complex tradition of crime writing in the Japanese capital.
By
Paul French
| April 27, 2020
The Long, Winding History of Sexton Blake, the Adamantly British Crime Fighter
He was Britain's most popular detective. Then he all but disappeared from the pop culture. Or did he?
By
Mark Hodder
| April 27, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Crows Aren't Bad Omens
By
Kay Hooper
| April 27, 2020
Catherine Aird: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
By
Neil Nyren
| April 24, 2020
The Hunter, The Hunted, and “The Most Dangerous Game"
By
Jack Carr
| April 23, 2020
In Praise of the Slow, Complex Crime Novel
A look at two recent novels that take on intergenerational trauma and violence against women.
By
TaraShea Nesbit
| April 23, 2020
Why True Stories Don’t Always
Make Good Fiction
His prison stories were visceral and true. But did they make for compelling fiction?
By
David Moloney
| April 22, 2020
From Atticus Finch to Saul Goodman: The Evolution of Lawyers on Screen and Page
How did heroic lawyers turn into dirtbag defenders?
By
Paul Levine
| April 21, 2020
Motherhood and Monsters: How Being a Parent Helps Me Write Thrillers
"Nightmares have always been a normal occurrence for me, but during my pregnancy they were more vivid than usual, more visceral."
By
Jennifer Hillier
| April 21, 2020
The King of the Golden Age
Crime Novel in Japan:
Seishi Yokomizo
The Golden Age of Mystery had its heyday in Japan, too. One author led the way.
By
Paul French
| April 20, 2020
Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #19
North by Northwest (1959)
By
Otto Penzler
| April 20, 2020
Bosch Is Back—And He's Still the Prickly Bastard You Want Showing Up at a Crime Scene
Six seasons in,
Bosch
may just be TV's best police procedural.
By
Keith Roysdon
| April 17, 2020
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