• Essays

    On Cowardice and Crime Fiction

    Why do we need our characters to be heroes or villains, when most in real life are somewhere in between?

    April 16, 2021  By Bridget Foley
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    The Complex History of 'Gay Panic' and the 2001 Thriller The Deep End

    The 1947 novel is about protecting a teenage daughter's sexual 'virtue'. The 2001 film changes that character to a gay son, and plays with how his sexuality leads to a domestic panic.

    April 16, 2021  By Matthew John Phillips
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    Confessions of a Librarian and Historical Mystery Novelist

    Plotting murder and historical manipulations in the public library

    April 16, 2021  By Will Thomas
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    Why Librarians Are Natural Born Detectives

    Whether you're looking for information about an uncle's will or a homemade poison, the reference desk is the place to go.

    April 15, 2021  By M.E. Hilliard
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    Why Crime Fiction Needs to Take on the World—and Change It

    This isn't Philip Marlowe's world anymore. Crime authors need to take on international issues and aim for real change.

    April 15, 2021  By Bryan Christy
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    Japan's Most Notorious Kidnapping Is Still Unsolved

    In 1984, the president of the Ezaki Glico confectionary company was kidnapped. 65 hours later, he would manage to escape. But that was only the beginning of the story...

    April 14, 2021  By Ferdison Cayetano
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    Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why Rear Window Remains the Director's Definitive Film

    Hitchcock was a master of obsessive looking and daydreamed about filming acts of sexual voyeurism. In Rear Window, he found a new vision.

    April 13, 2021  By Edward White
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    The Internet Is the New Panopticon: Suspense in the Age of Digital Surveillance

    Self-policing when you don't know if someone's watching isn't new. But the diffuse nature of modern internet surveillance is.

    April 13, 2021  By A. E. Osworth
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    What Happened to the Actors Who Were Performing the Night Lincoln Was Shot?

    For the actors performing at Ford's Theatre that night, the assassination was an act that would haunt them for decades.

    April 12, 2021  By Mariah Fredericks
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    The Women of the OSS:
    On The Pioneering American Spies of WWII

    35% of those serving in the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, were women, and yet their stories have only begun to be told.

    April 9, 2021  By Jane Healey
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