• New Nonfiction

    How One Writer Was Drawn Into a Decades Old Murder Mystery at Harvard

    A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

    November 10, 2020  By Becky Cooper
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    The True Story of Rose Dugdale, The Woman Who Stole Vermeer

    In the 1970s she led a string of high-profile, politically motivated art heists. Her legacy is still under hot debate.

    November 10, 2020  By Anthony Amore
    0

    How a Woman's Quest For Vengeance Started a #metoo Movement in the 1840s

    Amelia Norman, destitute and abandoned, attacked her former lover on the steps of the Astor House Hotel. Her trial would have surprising, and long-lasting, repercussions.

    November 6, 2020  By Julie Miller
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    Inside the Early Days of The Crime of the Century

    In March 1932, the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped. The investigation got off to a chaotic start.

    November 4, 2020  By Thomas Doherty
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    Crime, Politics, and History: An Election Day 2020 Reader

    A collection of stories that will take you outside today's firestorm but still within the political arena, if only for a little while.

    November 3, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    Ghost Hunting Is A Hobby,
    Not A Job

    Amy K. Bruni, host of the ghost hunting show Kindred Spirits, looks back on the strange path that led to her unusual career.

    October 27, 2020  By Amy Bruni with Julie Tremaine
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    The "Kidnapping Club" That Terrorized African Americans in 19th Century New York

    A gang of unscrupulous racists, with the support of prominent city figures, attacked New York City's Black community in the 1830s, and inspired novel forms of resistance.

    October 20, 2020  By Jonathan Daniel Wells
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    Edgar Allan Poe and and the Rise of the Modern City

    "The Man of the Crowd" was arguably Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story. It's also one of his strangest.

    October 20, 2020  By Scott Peeples
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    The Infamous Deeds and Postmortem Travels of William Corder

    After his execution for murder, William Corder's body was given to the dissectors, and his skin used to bind a book about his trial: just the start of the corpse's long afterlife.

    October 20, 2020  By Megan Rosenbloom
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    On Rotwelsch, the Central European Language of Beggars, Travelers and Thieves

    From Lutherans to Nazis, linguistic authorities have long sought to understand and control Rotwelsch (and long cast aspersions at its many Yiddish loan words).

    October 13, 2020  By Martin Puchner
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