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There is a long and complex history of crime fiction by Native authors. Their books are as important as ever.

The Very Brief Heyday of Crime Beat Magazine

For two years in the 1990s, horror writer T.E.D. Klein edited the "newsmagazine of crime." Was Crime Beat ahead of its time or a sign of divisions to come?

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