• Essays

    Why I Chose To Set My Series in the Gilded Age

    Rosemary Simpson on what Gilded Age social problems bring to detective fiction (and what we can learn from them today).

    January 4, 2022  By Rosemary Simpson
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    The House That Was Haunted By Benevolent Ghosts

    Or, brief and anecdotal musings on the friendliness of the spirit world and the joys of inspiration.

    January 3, 2022  By Darcey Bell
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    I Know What You're Thinking (And It Could Get Me Killed)

    The powers and perils of psychic sleuths.

    January 3, 2022  By Kay Hooper
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    The Motive and the Cue: Why Crime Fiction and the Theatrical World Have Always Gone Hand-in-Hand

    Elly Griffiths on the long history of actors, plays, and mystery.

    December 22, 2021  By Elly Griffiths
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    Big Trouble in the “93”: Olivier Norek’s Banlieue Trilogy

    A former French cop—and a writer on the hit series "Spiral"—is taking French crime fiction in a new direction.

    December 22, 2021  By Paul French
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    Five Story-Telling Lessons From Urban Legends

    "Where do these urban legends get their power...to stay in the hearts and minds of believers, year after year?"

    December 20, 2021  By Celso Hurtado
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    Jane Austen and Me

    Author Jane Cleland on Getting to Know Her Namesake Through Researching Austen's Sizable Correspondence

    December 17, 2021  By Jane Cleland
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    Los Angeles Crime Fiction: "Crime and the City" Turns 100

    For the column's centenary, Paul French visits the mecca of noir.

    December 17, 2021  By Paul French
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    For Decades, Carnival Sideshows Were a Real ‘Nightmare Alley’

    Keith Roysdon on the sideshow's unique place in American culture

    December 16, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Technicolor Noir of 'West Side Story'

    “Everywhere grime in America / Organized crime in America”

    December 15, 2021  By Zach Vasquez
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