• Essays

    The Wacky Packy Kid: The Forgotten 1970s Sticker Craze Created by Art Spiegelman

    Michael Gonzales recalls the brief heyday of Wacky Packages

    April 18, 2025  By Michael Gonzales
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    Structuring Truth Like Fiction: Building Suspense in Nonfiction Narratives

    'Writing creative non-fiction requires skilled storytelling techniques as well. It’s not enough to give "just the facts, ma’am."'

    April 18, 2025  By Art Bell
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    Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby Turns 100. Time To Admit It’s Crime Fiction.

    Chistopher Chambers makes the case for reading Gatsby as noir

    April 18, 2025  By Christopher Chambers
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    The Cost of a Bullet: A Nashville Story

    Michael Amos Cody on a Music Row murder that resonated across decades.

    April 17, 2025  By Michael Amos Cody
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    “A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

    Sarah Weinman in Praise of an Innovative and Timeless Work of Detective Fiction

    April 17, 2025  By Sarah Weinman
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    Why Being the Child of a Crime Writer Made It Inevitable I Would Become One

    Abbi Waxman on a childhood of library visits and watching her mother at work.

    April 17, 2025  By Abbi Waxman
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    Why Are All the Fictional Kids Doing Crimes?

    "It’s not often talked about, but criminal activity is kind of a hallmark of YA as a whole"

    April 16, 2025  By C. L. Montblanc
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    Max Allan Collins on Continuing the Work of Dashiell Hammett

    See a cover reveal and read the afterword for the upcoming "Return of the Maltese Falcon"

    April 15, 2025  By Max Allan Collins
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    Matthew Sullivan on Discovering The Dogs in the Nighttime, His Monthly Sherlock Group

    The value of reading – and sometimes reading together.

    April 15, 2025  By Matthew Sullivan
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    Why Belinda Bauer Is In Favor of Anthropomorphism in Fiction

    And why, in her new mystery, the victim is a bird.

    April 15, 2025  By Belinda Bauer
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