"Bloody Lady Agatha": The Dark Childhood Imagination that Shaped Agatha Christie's Fiction
An excerpt from Agatha Christie, The Mother of the Cozy Mystery by Nancy West
By Nancy West | July 15, 2026
The Secret Queer True Crime History Behind the Victorian Era's Other Sherlock Holmes
E.W. Hornung's Raffles stories —he was the original Gentleman thief, and for fifty years as popular as Sherlock — are almost entirely forgotten outside specialist circles, yet they contain one of Victorian literature's most compelling implicit queer relationships. I've revived this pairing in my new novel 'The Great Game' and here's why.
By Arvind Ethan David | July 15, 2026
How Pinellas County, Florida Shaped the Strange Life of Conman Paul Skalnik
By Pamela Colloff | July 14, 2026
Jo Piazza on Writing Convincing Art Heists and Museum Mysteries
By Jo Piazza | July 14, 2026
Lucy Burdette on Writing Sleuths Who Are Pregnant or New Mothers
The author of 'A Delicious Deception' shares advice for pushing detective series past parenthood
By Lucy Burdette | July 13, 2026
Crime and the City: Bari, Italy
A tour through a Puglia port city with a storied history of smugglers and crime syndicates
By Paul French | July 6, 2026
