• Essays

    The Sleuthing Spinster: Why Single Women Rule Cozy Fiction

    Gretchen Rue on mystery's favorite investigators

    September 25, 2023  By Gretchen Rue
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    The Wild, Bizarre, Sometimes Criminal Pleasures of London's Bartholomew Fair

    Laura Shepherd-Robinson on the dangerous side of one of London's most famous historical fairs.

    September 22, 2023  By Laura Shepherd-Robinson
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    Bloodstock Sales: The Biggest Gambles in Horseracing

    Felix Francis on the hidden world of bloodlines, stud fees, and occasional skulduggery.

    September 22, 2023  By Felix Francis
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    How Subplots and Plot Filaments Lend Texture and Depth to Any Novel

    And they’re the key to continuity in a mystery series.

    September 20, 2023  By Michael Craft
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    Murder Ballads, the Original True Crime

    On the long tradition of folk music about crimes, used to help communities process trauma and memorialize victims.

    September 19, 2023  By Janet Beard
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    Port-au-Prince: Crime Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s Soul

    Crime and the City visits the Haitian capital.

    September 18, 2023  By Paul French
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    When Characters Fake Their Own Deaths

    Exploring pseudocide in fiction and film.

    September 18, 2023  By Manning Wolfe
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    Native American Literature: Tribes and Tribulations

    "As a part Eastern Band Cherokee writer, it can be a tightrope dance deciding what to present to the outside world."

    September 18, 2023  By Deborah J. Ledford
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    Jason Voorhees: Neurodivergent Icon?

    On finding empowerment and autistic representation in an unlikely source: Friday the 13th's iconic slasher

    September 15, 2023  By Mark Wheaton
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    The Freudian Gothic Fiction of Ira Levin

    "Behind the terse style, there is a poetry to the ironies of Levin’s plots, and there is a brutality that emerges from his intricate imagination."

    September 15, 2023  By James Reich
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