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    My First Thriller: Lee Child

    My First Thriller: Lee Child

    How the creator of Jack Reacher got fired, started writing, found a pen name, found an agent, and launched a new career.

    By Rick Pullen | April 2, 2020

    Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.

    Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.

    What a different movie that would have been.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 2, 2020

    The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America

    The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America

    A society under strain turned to wholesale abduction and ransom.

    By David Stout | April 1, 2020

    Vidocq and the Birth of the Fictional Detective

    Vidocq and the Birth of the Fictional Detective

    The ex-convict turned police detective who inspired generations of authors and helped launch a new genre of literature.

    By Nick Kolakowski | April 1, 2020

    The Man Who Can’t Be Beat: <em>Peaky Blinders</em> and the Rise of Fascism

    The Man Who Can’t Be Beat: Peaky Blinders and the Rise of Fascism

    The Shelby crime family finds a new politics in 1920's Birmingham.

    By Torrey Crim | March 31, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 23

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 23

    Vertigo (1958)

    By Otto Penzler | March 31, 2020

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    The Evolution—and the Future—of the Private Eye

    The Evolution—and the Future—of the Private Eye

    Cheryl A. Head on the authors and books ushering PI fiction into the 21st century.

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    The Girl in the Title of the Crime Novel: The Great Crime Fiction Disambiguation Project

    The Girl in the Title of the Crime Novel: The Great Crime Fiction Disambiguation Project

    How did we end up with so many books with "girl" in the title? (Slowly, then all at once.)

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    The Artist Who Captured America's Most Dramatic Courtroom Moments—And Was Hounded by the FBI

    The Artist Who Captured America's Most Dramatic Courtroom Moments—And Was Hounded by the FBI

    The life, work, and strange times of Arnold Mesches

    By Alix Lambert | March 25, 2020

    Memories, Hauntings, and The Meaning of a Home

    Memories, Hauntings, and The Meaning of a Home

    A shocking murder happened in my community when I was child. I could never stop thinking about it. Then I became haunted by it.

    By T. Marie Vandelly | March 25, 2020

    Social Media Fakeness Is Bad for Our Psyches...But Great for Crime Writers

    Social Media Fakeness Is Bad for Our Psyches...But Great for Crime Writers

    Between the curated and the real, thriller authors find gold.

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    The Crime Novels of Bogotá

    The Crime Novels of Bogotá

    Colombia's capital city has seen decades of trauma. It has also produced some of fiction's most powerful stories.

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    Our Obsession with Beautiful Dead Girls Is Keeping Us from Addressing Domestic Violence

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