• New Nonfiction

    The Adventures of Eugene Bullard: History's First African-American Fighter Pilot

    He was a boxer, a wanderer, and a Foreign Legion volunteer. In 1917, he went up against the dreaded Red Baron's Flying Circus.

    November 11, 2019  By Phil Keith and Tom Clavin
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    On The Hall-Mills Murders, (a) Crime of the Century

    How the salacious double murder of a minister and a choir member in 1922 inspired one of the earliest legal thrillers.

    November 4, 2019  By Hank Phillippi Ryan
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    The KGB's Surprisingly Effective Plan to Exile Solzhenitsyn

    Inside the plan to turn the Soviet Union's most dangerous dissident into the West's least popular defector.

    October 28, 2019  By Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan
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    Stieg Larsson's Unfinished True Crime Investigation into an Assassination: Day 1

    For decades after the Swedish PM was assassinated, the future crime novelist waded through a web of conspiracies and extremists.

    October 21, 2019  By Jan Stocklassa
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    An Ancient History of Piracy

    How advances in sea power and changes in climate led to widespread piracy at the edge of the Roman Empire

    October 21, 2019  By David Abulafia
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    The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of October

    Assassins, Killer Musicians and Adventures with Lee Child

    October 17, 2019  By CrimeReads 
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    Lee Child Grapples With Mortality, Sales, Rivals, and Successors

    Who could take over the Jack Reacher series? Child wonders.

    October 9, 2019  By Andy Martin
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    About That Pitch Black Night When Elvis Shot Robert Goulet (Sort Of)

    An infamous night in music history, as told by the creator of Disgraceland, the rock 'n roll true crime podcast.

    October 9, 2019  By Jake Brennan
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    How Mary Roberts Rinehart, Queen of the Mystery Novel, Was Very Nearly Murdered

    She was the grande dame of American crime fiction, at the height of her powers, when she fell into a murder mystery of her own.

    October 3, 2019  By Sarah Weinman
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    The Daring Cold War Plan to Build A Tunnel Between East and West Berlin

    After the intelligence losses of "Black Friday," the CIA turned to novel methods to gain access to Soviet secrets.

    September 25, 2019  By Steve Vogel
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