• Essays

    What Do Creators Owe Their Real-Life Subjects?

    Robyn Harding on the power and the pitfalls of basing thriller characters on real people.

    July 2, 2024  By Robyn Harding
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    The Crime Fiction of Montevideo

    Crime and the City takes a book tour through the Uruguayan capital.

    July 1, 2024  By Paul French
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    Candy for the People: The Miami Murder Mystery That Transfixed America

    Sixty years ago, a high-profile murder gave America its first taste of true crime in the modern media age.

    June 28, 2024  By Gaspar González
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    The Beautifully Terrifying, Alluring, Decadent Reality of Paris

    Shan Serafin on living the expat dream and accidentally writing his darkest, most personal thriller yet.

    June 28, 2024  By Shan Serafin
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    The Con Artists Who Preyed on Gay Men In the Early 1900s

    James Polchin on the "real-life conmen...whose cons often profited from the prohibition and criminalization of homosexuals."

    June 27, 2024  By James Polchin
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    The Gallic Rascal Vs. the Staid Englishman: A New Perspective on Lupin and Holmes

    Sam Siciliano on bringing the two iconic fictional detectives together to solve a complex case

    June 27, 2024  By Sam Siciliano
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    Why Women Love Bad Boys–And What It Means for Crime Culture

    Tasha Coryell on a culture that incentivizes dangerous desires.

    June 25, 2024  By Tasha Coryell
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    American Psycho and the Rise of Capitalist Horror

    Bret Easton Ellis's status-obsessed yuppies traded humanity for consumerism. They're more relevant now than ever before.

    June 21, 2024  By E. K. Sathue
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    Lovin’ the Southern-Fried Crime Films of the 1970s

    Revisiting the era of Gator Bait, small-town sheriffs, and Burt Reynolds gone wild.

    June 21, 2024  By Keith Roysdon
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    How Lab-Grown Diamonds Upended the Industry and Could End Up Changing the World

    Matthew Hart on mayhem in the diamond industry.

    June 20, 2024  By Matthew Hart
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