• Essays

    An Ode to Charles Willeford

    First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of American crime fiction fans.

    August 23, 2024  By Michael Ledwidge
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    Of Psychopaths and CEOs

    On the rise of entrepreneurs who act like "Greek gods—mercurial, sometimes destructive, and murkily in control of our lives."

    August 22, 2024  By Elisabeth Eaves
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    Ludicrous But Memorable: Agatha Christie’s The Big Four

    Curtis Evans on the least-well-liked of Christie's Poirot novels

    August 22, 2024  By Curtis Evans
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    On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

    Some decisions we make. Some are made for us. Fiction needs to acknowledge what we can (and can't) change.

    August 21, 2024  By James Wade
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    Where does Fiction Meet the Real World?

    "All fiction is speculative....But somewhere there is a line between reality and fiction, a gap filled with imagination rather than truth"

    August 21, 2024  By Bridget Collins
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    This Isn’t The End: What To Do When Your Publisher Dies

    It's an author's nightmare, but you're not alone. James Queally talks with writers who have been through a publisher's demise.

    August 20, 2024  By James Queally
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    The Irresistible Pull of an Anonymous Note—Why the Most Frightening Possibility Is All of Them

    Elizabeth Staple on dread, and what it does to us.

    August 19, 2024  By Elizabeth Staple
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    Murder in Middlemarch

    Everyone performs, in George Eliot's famous novel. But some are performing to cover up a killing!

    August 16, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Meet Thomas Byrnes, Gilded Age New York's Performative, Corrupt Police Detective

    He staged elaborate scenes to extract confessions, presented prisoners to police in a "parade," and invented the "Rogues' Gallery"

    August 15, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Oh Mother! Mothers in Horror and the Horror They Represent

    Leslie J. Anderson considers the literature of scary kids, scarier mothers, and the terrifying project of raising a child

    August 14, 2024  By Leslie J. Anderson
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