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How Agatha Christie's Deep Respect for Science Helped Her Mysteries Stand the Test of Time

How Agatha Christie's Deep Respect for Science Helped Her Mysteries Stand the Test of Time

A careful consideration of the forensic sciences in mystery's most enduring novels.

By Carla Valentine | June 3, 2022

An Interview with the Hangman's Wife

An Interview with the Hangman's Wife

Nancy Dougherty on the uncanny experience of traveling to the Baltic Sea to interview the wife of Reinhard Heydrich.

By Nancy Dougherty | May 24, 2022

A New True Crime Book Investigates a Sister's Murder and Official Indifference

A New True Crime Book Investigates a Sister's Murder and Official Indifference

In 1978, Therese Allore vanished. Six months later, her body was discovered. Her brother is still looking for answers.

By Peter Handel | May 20, 2022

"Criminal profiling has been fooling us all."

Eric Barker on the pseudoscience of profiling.

By Eric Barker | May 19, 2022

On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

Why do so many cold cases go unsolved?

By Kathryn Miles | May 12, 2022

Dead in the Water: How a Flailing Supertanker Illustrates The Story of Modern Shipping

Dead in the Water: How a Flailing Supertanker Illustrates The Story of Modern Shipping

When a supertanker starts sinking, whose job is it to save it?

By Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel | May 9, 2022

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The Long Island Cops Who Schemed To Take Over the District Attorney's Office

By Gus Garcia-Roberts | May 4, 2022

The Incredible, True Story of How the Government Turned Sammy Gravano, Gambino Family Underboss, Into a Cooperating Witness

By John Gleeson | May 3, 2022

How Dorothy B. Hughes' In a Lonely Place Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

By Elizabeth D. Samet | April 27, 2022

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How a "Collective Madness" in 18th Century France Led to Financial Ruin and a Scheme to Lock Up Women and Ship Them Into Exile

Paris, 1719: After a financial panic sweeps the nation, a decision is made—convicts will be sent to work the swamps of Louisiana.

By Joan DeJean | April 19, 2022

Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

Mark Arsenault on the scandals that would eventually unite two journalists in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

By Mark Arsenault | April 12, 2022

Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired <em>Twin Peaks</em>

Investigating the Cold Case That Inspired Twin Peaks

A trip to upstate New York, where Mark Frost once heard stories of an unsolved murder from the early 1900s.

By Mark T. Givens and David Bushman | April 6, 2022

Forget <em>Frankenstein</em>. It's Time To Read <em>The Mummy!</em>

Forget Frankenstein. It's Time To Read The Mummy!

Lisa Tuttle on The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, arguably the first novel to use now-common scifi tropes.

By Lisa Tuttle | April 5, 2022

The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great – and the Quest for His Lost Cities

The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into the Footsteps of Alexander the Great – and the Quest for His Lost Cities

Alexander's great city had vanished. One British East India Company deserter was determined to find it.

By Edmund Richardson | April 5, 2022

The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

The Bloody Benders, the search for the Zodiac, an accidental private eye, and more.

By CrimeReads | March 29, 2022

<em>The Conversation</em>: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the

The Conversation: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the "Era of the Listening Device"

Brian Hochman on the 1974 wiretap thriller that captured the rise of a surveillance society.

By Brian Hochman | March 22, 2022

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