• Essays

    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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    Pinkerton Spy, Feminist Icon

    Meet Kate Warne, America's first female detective and spy, who thwarted an assassination plot on Lincoln.

    July 18, 2019  By Nile Cappello
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    Nadezhda Popova: Commander
    of the Night Witches

    Criminal Broads Presents The Nazi-Killers

    July 17, 2019  By Tori Telfer
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    Miami Vice: How an Icon of 80s Cool Transformed a City and the Landscape of Television

    South Beach was in decay, crime was rampant, and tourism was dry. Then came Miami Vice, and South Florida found its mojo.

    July 17, 2019  By Craig Pittman
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