• Essays

    Letters from My Father
    in Prison

    An Author Returns for the First Time to a Painful Record

    April 3, 2018  By Tyler Wetherall
    1

    All Novelists Are Con Artists

    Magic, Misdirection, and the Search for the Perfect Mark

    April 3, 2018  By Michael Kardos
    0

    Why Comedy Is the Most
    Subversive Art

    A Crime Author Investigates What Makes Another Culture Laugh

    April 2, 2018  By Derek Miller
    0

    Bernie Gunther:
    A Hero of Our Time

    Why Philip Kerr's Wisecracking, Nazi Adjacent Sleuth Resonates

    March 30, 2018  By Molly Odintz
    1

    The Great Detective and The Gentleman Burglar

    Sherlock Holmes, Arsene Lupin, and the Layered Detective Novel

    March 30, 2018  By Gordon McAlpine
    0

    Writing in the Shadow of Graham Greene

    On 'Our Man in Havana' and the Stories Greene Missed

    March 29, 2018  By Paul Vidich
    0

    The Transformative Power of
    Crime Scene Dioramas

    On the Nutshell Studies, Poetry, and the Art of Restraint

    March 28, 2018  By Erica Wright
    0

    The Inherent Mystery
    of Medical Thrillers

    "Medicine is a powerful narrative tool because it is in itself mysterious."

    March 28, 2018  By Robin Oliveira
    0

    What Life Is Really Like
    on the Crime Beat

    When Your First Job Is Crime Reporting in Savannah, Georgia

    March 26, 2018  By Christi Daugherty
    0

    What Can Crime Writers Learn From Screenwriting?

    Michelle Frances on the Commonalities Between Script and Prose

    March 26, 2018  By Michelle Frances
    0


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