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New Nonfiction
Hercule Poirot’s First Appearances on Television and Radio
While stage and screen appearances brought Poirot to international prominence, his arrival on television and radio by the late 1930s signified a new level of public adoration.
By
Mark Aldridge
| April 21, 2021
How One Woman's Forced Sterilization Led to a Mayhem Charge and Exposed a Secret World of Medical Atrocities
In early 20th century California, forced sterilizations were an unnervingly widespread, if mostly secret, practice.
By
Audrey Clare Farley
| April 20, 2021
Fraud and Spiritualism Between the Wars: A Study of Two Hoaxes
In the 1930s, famed spiritual investigator and ghost hunter Nandor Fodor found himself disappointed by several hoaxes.
By
Kate Summerscale
| April 20, 2021
April's Best Nonfiction Crime Books
A new study of Hitchcock's films, the tragic life of an heiress, and a murder at the mission.
By
CrimeReads
| April 16, 2021
How Gilded Age Corruption Produced the Biggest, Maddest Gold Rush in History
America was on edge, inequity was bringing about class warfare. And then there was news of gold in Alaska.
By
Brian Castner
| April 14, 2021
Hitchcock, The Voyeur: Why
Rear Window
Remains the Director's Definitive Film
Hitchcock was a master of obsessive looking and daydreamed about filming acts of sexual voyeurism. In
Rear Window
, he found a new vision.
By
Edward White
| April 13, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
How the Jazz Age's Most Notorious Gangster Couple Got Ready For a Heist
By
Glenn Stout
| April 12, 2021
On The Voynich Manuscript, the Most Indecipherable Coded Text Ever Discovered
By
Edward Brooke-Hitching
| April 7, 2021
Seven True Crime Books You Should Read This Month
By
CrimeReads
| March 26, 2021
The Murder That Stunned Gangland Philadelphia
Hughie McLoon was a beloved figure on the streets of Philly, but that didn't save him from a stray bullet. Decades later, the question remains: who was the real target?
By
Allen Abel
| March 25, 2021
Murder Tourism in Middle America: The World of Truman Capote's
In Cold Blood
Notes from a road trip to Holcomb, Kansas, where Capote once chronicled the murder of the Clutter family.
By
Justin St. Germain
| March 17, 2021
Lolita
isn't a love story. It's a gothic horror novel.
"Like Tom Ripley and Patrick Bateman—and Count Dracula and Hannibal Lecter—Humbert fascinates mainly because of the chasm between his sophisticated urbanity and his brutal rapaciousness."
By
Christina Baker Kline
| March 16, 2021
On Poisonings, Serial Killers, Mass Murderers, and Other Symbols of the Zeitgeist
Why do some crimes become media sensations and cultural touchstones, while others more horrifying fade into obscurity?
By
Harold Schechter
| March 11, 2021
The Invention of Murder: How the Ancient Romans Codified Their Bizarre Views on Murder
The Romans took a pragmatic (and utterly horrifying) approach when it came to determining liability for killing and injury.
By
Emma Southon
| March 10, 2021
Why Just About Every Country Seems to Have a Favorite Scam
The "Canadian Paradox" and the economic geography of fraud, as explained by an economist and author.
By
Dan Davies
| March 9, 2021
My Babysitter, the Serial Killer
Liza Rodman remembers the first time she met Tony Costa, handyman, childhood companion, and murderer.
By
Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan
| March 3, 2021
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