• Essays

    McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

    William McIlvanney's pitch black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw's disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of crime fiction.

    September 7, 2021  By Ian Rankin
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    In Only Murders in the Building, a mystery isn't a mystery until it's a production

    In the new series, three neighbors investigate a murder in their apartment building while making a true crime podcast about it.

    September 3, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    'The Way of the Gun’ Was a Nihilistic Rebuke To Everything Cool in Nineties Crime Cinema

    And it deserves a cult status of its own.

    September 3, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    The Puzzling Life and Uncertain Death of Heinrich Feldmann, A Spy in the First World War

    The Neutral Netherlands spent WWI riddled with spies, secret agents, and deserters. Their stories are incomplete, and all the more fascinating for it.

    September 3, 2021  By Anna Lee Huber
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    How The French Connection Reinvented (and Exploded) the Police Procedural

    William Friedkin's 1971 masterpiece is all about the chase. That's what distinguishes it from everything that came before and after.

    September 2, 2021  By Chris McGinley
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    Why Artifacts Should Be Returned To Their Countries of Origin: A Look Inside The Debate

    Many nations have acknowledged that their treasures come from a history of plunder, but they're rather divided on what to give back.

    September 2, 2021  By Gill Paul
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    A Tour of Florida's
    Haunted Hotels

    Chasing Ghosts in the Sunshine State

    September 2, 2021  By Carol J. Perry
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    Remembering Harry O, The Seventies' Second Best, Mostly Forgotten Private Eye Series

    'The Rockford Files' may have outshone the darker noir of 'Harry O', but David Janssen's gumshoe series had lofty ambitions, too.

    September 1, 2021  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    The Luxury Hotels That Gave Succor to the Queens of Golden Age Crime Fiction

    A look at the most inspiring and atmospheric writerly accommodations of the 1920s and 30s.

    September 1, 2021  By Hannah Dennison
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    Let’s All Be Final Girls

    Stephen Graham Jones on the evolution of the slasher film and its central figure—the final girl.

    August 31, 2021  By Stephen Graham Jones
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