• Essays

    Noir and the Mystery of Evangelicalism

    "The Evangelical pastor is just another shade of the American cowboy, whose latter-day shadow is the American detective."

    July 30, 2019  By Patrick Coleman
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    The Crime Novels of Buenos Aires

    La Novela Negra is on the rise again, as a new generation of Argentine crime novelists explores the country's underbelly.

    July 29, 2019  By Paul French
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    Back in Time at the
    Edo-Tokyo Museum

    A historical crime writer considers the nature of research, and looks to a national treasure to fill out the rich details of her writing.

    July 29, 2019  By Susan Spann
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    Remembering Gore Vidal's Slyly Subversive Mystery Novels

    He was blacklisted by the literary establishment. So he turned to mystery fiction, and gave the world a very new kind of detective.

    July 26, 2019  By David Masciotra
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    The Strange Intoxication of Being Conned By Anna Delvey

    She was a glamorous new friend. And also the con-artist-posing-as-a-German-heiress who exposed New York society.

    July 25, 2019  By Rachel DeLoache Williams
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    Laura Lippman: My 35-Year Love Affair with Marjorie Morningstar

    "To me, it's a unicorn of a book—a so-called women's novel, written by a man, that takes its heroine very seriously."

    July 23, 2019  By Laura Lippman
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    The Silence of the Lambs: The Seminal Serial Killer Novel, and Still the Best

    A thriller author and her forensics expert partner celebrate the literary and investigative merits of an all-time great thriller.

    July 22, 2019  By Ashley Dyer
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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #46

    Mean Streets (1973)

    July 22, 2019  By Otto Penzler
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    Patricia Moyes: A Crime Reader's Guide to the Classics

    In midcentury Britain, there was one more entry into the Golden Age of Mystery

    July 19, 2019  By Neil Nyren
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    The Evolution of Walt Longmire: Somewhere Between Laughter and Death

    A Bookseller's Guide to Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire Series

    July 18, 2019  By Scott Montgomery
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