• Essays

    The Poison Pen Letter: The Early 20th Century's Strangest Crime Wave

    Across America and Europe, people couldn't stop writing nasty letters. Soon the courts were overwhelmed with epistolary assaults.

    March 10, 2020  By Curtis Evans
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    Searching for James M. Cain's Los Angeles

    Where have all the roadhouses gone?

    March 10, 2020  By Katie Orphan
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    Briarpatch May Just Be the Coolest Show on TV

    A new series returns to a bygone era of strange, slick crime fiction.

    March 10, 2020  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Crime and the City: Saigon

    In the long shadow of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, a city's crime fiction scene thrives.

    March 9, 2020  By Paul French
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    Writing a Crime Novel About Munchausen-By-Proxy—While Pregnant

    A crime author reckons with her darkest fears.

    March 9, 2020  By Emily Elgar
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    How Do You Write a Mystery When Every Plot Is Taken?

    How to Mix Things Up, Do Justice to Tradition, and Still Keep Your Crime Writing Fresh

    March 9, 2020  By Tessa Wegert
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    The Art of Letting Your Heroes Get Beat Up Now and Again

    Sometimes the most powerful thing an author can do is kick a guy when he's down.

    March 6, 2020  By John McMahon
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    When The Casinos Came To Atlantic City...

    Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Resort Town Reinvented as a Gambling Den

    March 6, 2020  By Caitlin Mullen
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    Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

    The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.

    March 5, 2020  By William Boyle
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    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    Dangerous partners, queer icons, and a story that became a crime novel.

    March 5, 2020  By Russ Thomas
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