• Essays

    Walking the Hybrid Tightrope with Romantic Suspense

    How do authors pull off the tricky balance of action and amore?

    October 5, 2020  By Irene Hannon
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    Houdini, Escapist Fiction and The Role of Art

    Why do some draw a line between literary art and escapist fiction?

    October 5, 2020  By Lonnie Busch
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    The Strange Life and Mysterious Disappearance of a Very American Painting

    Craig Johnson on Custer, and the painting that ornamented barroom walls across America, then vanished.

    October 2, 2020  By Craig Johnson
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    On Drawing Inspiration From a Rich History of Ruins

    Britons have long had a fascination with ruins. For Anna Lee Huber they're the start of mystery novels.

    October 2, 2020  By Anna Lee Huber
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    Mystery Writer Jacques Futrelle Died Onboard the Titanic, but His Greatest Detective Creation Lives On

    Meet Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen,
    Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., M. D., M.D.S.

    October 1, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    On the Rearranged Sherlockian World of Enola Holmes

    What the new Netflix film accomplishes in stressing diversity and political equality, it also flubs in erasing the real people who fought for these things.

    September 30, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Evolution of Jack Reacher

    Lee Child's biographer on the creation of an iconic figure, from the first draft to the published novel.

    September 29, 2020  By Heather Martin
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    Human Resources: How My Conspiracy Fiction Began to Bleed Into My Life

    On Conspiracy, Commodification, and Corporate Nightmares

    September 29, 2020  By Jeremy Robert Johnson
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    Crime and the City: Palermo, Sicily

    Exploring the crime literature of an ancient city plagued by corruption and organized crime.

    September 28, 2020  By Paul French
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    Why Writers Are Always in Pursuit of the Maltese Falcon

    Ninety years later, the draw of Hammett's mysterious bird statuette remains strong, especially for writers.

    September 25, 2020  By Gordon McAlpine
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