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In 1749, Henry Fielding devised a plan for the Bow Street Runners, a group of men given permission to confront suspected criminals.

In 2001, Michael Gonzales visited the apartment of a hospitable actress and dealer. Soon it would be the site of a notorious murder.

"A series in which the protagonist ages with the years becomes in effect a long novel, the record of a life..."

How did the aristocratic author of English’s first great spy novel end up dead in the Irish Civil War?

Matthew Hart wrote about diamonds and gold. One day, he got the call from Brazil—an 81-carater came out of the river.

John Connolly on the current generation of Irish crime novelists and crime readers.

Fiction writers have long tried to figure out how the world, and our relationship to it, might change after cataclysm.

In a city dominated by a famous university, students, professors, and the occasional vicar supply the mysteries.

Every year, Lake of the Ozarks sees an influx of millions and a flood of cash. Of course there's going to be crime.

Ghost writers, not ghostwriters.

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