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Martin Edwards on
Murder in the Basement
, A Pioneering Work of Suspense
Murder in the Basement, and so is his flair for taking the genre in new directions."">"Berkeley’s cynicism and love of irony are much in evidence in
Murder in the Basement
, and so is his flair for taking the genre in new directions."
By
Martin Edwards
| December 6, 2022
How Edgar Allan Poe Reinvented American Literature – and Science Writing
John Tresch: "In that lurid myth, in those shocking images, that's where the field of experimentation for future literature lives."
By
Lisa Levy
| December 3, 2022
Into the Combat Zone: Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood
The Zone was Boston's Times Square, a magnet for the city's most desperate and depraved.
By
Don Stradley
| November 29, 2022
How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America – And Won the Support of Nasser's Egypt
In 1958, the Nation of Islam was a powerful organization, on the rise. Soon, the American media, and the world, would take notice.
By
Shahan Mufti
| November 23, 2022
How a Forgery of a Forgery Began a Career in the Artistic Underworld
On the Early Days of Tony Tetro's Life as an Art Forger
By
Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi
| November 22, 2022
The Truth About Snitching
Our legal system is intensely reliant on informants and the unregulated, mostly unknown deals that guide them into an ever-more dangerous life.
By
Alexandra Natapoff
| November 15, 2022
Best Reviewed
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Murder after Christmas: An Unusual and Amusing Mystery
By
Martin Edwards
| November 9, 2022
When Truman Capote Met Ann Woodward, Recently Minted Widow, in Saint Moritz
By
Roseanne Montillo
| November 8, 2022
On Writing About Women Who Kill
By
Alia Trabucco Zerán
| November 8, 2022
Boston's Combat Zone: Why Two Authors Were Drawn to the Same 45 Year-Old Crime
A 1976 murder captured the interest of two Boston-area authors, who took very different approaches to the story.
By
Gabriel Valjan and Jan Brogan
| November 4, 2022
On Ed Lacy's
Room to Swing
and Early Representation of Black Sleuths in Crime Fiction
Written by a Harlem-based white author,
Room to Swing
features a Black detective and is an earnest effort infused with the jazzy spirit of the 1950s.
By
Leslie S. Klinger
| November 4, 2022
How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief
Before Geronimo became the Apaches' fabled war commander, he lost everything.
By
H.W. Brands
| November 1, 2022
Martin Edwards On E. C. R. Lorac's Delightful Whodunit,
These Names Make Clues
A traditional "closed circle" mystery, Lorac's novel is her best at capturing the spirit of the Golden Age.
By
Martin Edwards
| November 1, 2022
Paula Guran on the Need for Horror in Challenging Times
"Horror fiction and dark fantasy, at its best, can teach us how to survive real fear."
By
Paula Guran
| October 28, 2022
Dracula vs. the FBI
Or, how J. Edgar Hoover's goons pursued Bela Lugosi at the height of the Red Scare.
By
W. Scott Poole
| October 26, 2022
Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself: On The Origins of the Devil
"Cultures and religions around the globe have long imagined Devil-like figures..."
By
La Carmina
| October 26, 2022
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