• Essays

    Censorettes: The Women Wartime Censors Who Kept The Allies Safe And Uncovered A Nest of Spies in Brooklyn

    Markers in hand, these World War II volunteers used their language skills and expertise to hunt down German spies.

    November 13, 2020  By Elizabeth Bales Frank
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    What Ozark Gets Wrong: The Latest Tricks in International Money Laundering

    "Running a casino to launder illegal cash is so 1940s."

    November 13, 2020  By Michael Niemann
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    It's Time To Add Some Magic to Your Cozies

    Indulging in the fanciful and adding in some magical realism is how a cat cozy can become a talking cat cozy.

    November 13, 2020  By Jennifer J. Chow
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    Writing Outside Representation

    E.A. Aymar talks with fellow crime writers about appropriation, and how to write across identity lines responsibly.

    November 12, 2020  By E.A. Aymar
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    The tortuous literary puzzle Cain's Jawbone has been solved for the first time since 1934

    Only three people have ever cracked it. The most recent sleuth did it during pandemic lockdown.

    November 11, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Was Uncle Dino a Murderer?

    Dino Taraporevala was a beloved family friend—until he murdered two elderly people in the street. Or did he?

    November 11, 2020  By Nev March
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    Inside Trump's Long War Against the American Intelligence Community

    Of all the institutions Trump has undermined, his attacks on the US intelligence apparatus, grounded in the bizarre and egotistical, may be the most harmful for long-term security.

    November 11, 2020  By Robert Littell
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    You Don't Look Like a Private Investigator

    How a breast cancer diagnosis took Elizabeth Breck from working as a private investigator to writing about one.

    November 11, 2020  By Elizabeth Breck
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    The Deadly Art of Politics

    "History, it seemed, was one long crime novel, an endless terrain of infractions littered with culpability and cunning."

    November 10, 2020  By Jeffrey Fleishman
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    In the Footprints of the Hound: Why The Hound of the Baskervilles Still Haunts

    In Arthur Conan Doyle's most gothic-influenced novel, Sherlock Holmes confronts the ultimate foil to his own humanity and logic.

    November 10, 2020  By James Lovegrove
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