• Essays

    The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

    What makes crime stories so therapeutic? Writer and family counselor Lynne Reeves has some theories.

    November 8, 2021  By Lynne Reeves
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    Josephine Tey and the Detection Club: A Mystery Solved

    Tey was invited to join the Detection Club, yet her name never appeared on the membership roll. What happened?

    November 5, 2021  By Martin Edwards and Jennifer Morag Henderson
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    Fatalism Has Always Been at the Core of the Bond Series

    It was there in Fleming's books and now it's in the movies, too: James Bond wants to die.

    November 5, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    What One Lawyer Learned Living with Nuns in Alabama While Representing a Man on Death Row

    When Donald Cameron Clark, Jr. teamed up with a lawyering nun to save a man's life, he learned to look beyond expectations.

    November 5, 2021  By Donald Cameron Clark Jr
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    Columbo's First Case: How One of TV's Most Iconic Detectives Got His Start

    “Columbo” got a trial run on “Alfred Hitchcock” – and so did his first quarry.

    November 4, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

    A Christie Curriculum

    November 4, 2021  By Lori Rader-Day
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    The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

    "Have you ever stopped to think about how the items in books help to define our favorite characters?"

    November 4, 2021  By Heather Redmond
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    When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

    "You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

    November 4, 2021  By Anne Emery
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    A Celebration of Sleuth-Mothers

    "Society often overlooks and even erases women caring for children...allow[ing] the sleuth-mother to observe and investigate in the shadows."

    November 3, 2021  By Raquel V. Reyes
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    Ben and Stella Dickson: From Outlaws to Folk Heroes

    Bonnie and Clyde weren't the only couple robbing banks and capturing hearts in the 1930s.

    November 3, 2021  By Dietrich Kalteis
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