• Essays

    Rex Pickett On The Strange Experience of Donating His Papers To The Archives

    When the author of Sideways sent his papers off to be catalogued, he never expected to find inspiration for his next novel.

    November 9, 2021  By Rex Pickett
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    Re-Ragging in Red: Murder Ballads and Dirty Cops

    Duncan and Brady isn't just a great song. It's a call to action against police abuse of the Black community.

    November 8, 2021  By Candas Jane Dorsey
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    Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50

    "The soft-boiled genre is embedded firmly between the cozy and the hard-boiled, like middle-aged and elder women ensconced between siren and senior."

    November 8, 2021  By Gabrielle St. George
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    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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