• Essays

    Getting to Know My Aunt Through Her Cold War Cookbook

    How a comforting family relic gave birth to a new story of espionage, intrigue, and adventure.

    July 6, 2020  By Celia Rees
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 9

    White Heat (1949)

    July 6, 2020  By Otto Penzler
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    My Writing Will Never Be as Good as Charles Willeford's

    But I keep on writing anyway.

    July 3, 2020  By Chip Mosher
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    On the Endless Symbolism of Jaws, Which Owes Its Dark Soul to Moby Dick

    Olivia Rutigliano discusses punishment, redemption, and fate in her favorite movie of all time.

    July 2, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    P. D. James: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    She refined the crime novel to its dark, poetic core and created a roster of iconic detectives along the way.

    July 2, 2020  By Neil Nyren
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    Crime Fiction Trains Us for Crisis

    "Through crime fiction, we have faced all manner of peril, defended the unjustly accused, protected intended victims."

    July 2, 2020  By Sulari Gentill
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    How the Demolition of the Last Great Borscht Belt Resort Inspired a Catskills Mystery

    A novelist returns to her hometown and says goodbye to an icon.

    July 1, 2020  By Kaitlyn Dunnett
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    Discovering the Women Authors Behind Hitchcock's Movies

    How reading Patricia Highsmith and Daphne Du Maurier changed my understanding of the Master of Suspense.

    June 30, 2020  By Leah Konen
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    Let It Bleed: Anti-heroes at the crossroads of crime fiction and popular music

    The history of music is full of outlaws and criminals, killers and their victims, shady dealers and backstage dreamers...

    June 29, 2020  By S.W. Lauden
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    Patricia Highsmith: Preying on Our Minds

    Why reading Highsmith's novels resonates so deeply—and disturbingly—in unsettled times.

    June 26, 2020  By Sarah Hilary
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