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The Dark Pleasures of School-Based Mysteries

The Dark Pleasures of School-Based Mysteries

Vera Kurian on the heady, dangerous world of the campus thriller.

By Vera Kurian | September 7, 2021

10 Crime Novels About The Cutthroat Business of Culture

10 Crime Novels About The Cutthroat Business of Culture

Go behind the scenes in these tales of love, murder and revenge among the glitterati.

By Helen Walsh | September 7, 2021

McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

William McIlvanney's pitch black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw's disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of crime fiction.

By Ian Rankin | September 7, 2021

Lisa Jewell on Craft, Inspiration, and Why She Needed to Write a Boarding School Murder Mystery

Lisa Jewell on Craft, Inspiration, and Why She Needed to Write a Boarding School Murder Mystery

More than twenty years later, Jewell still resists making any firm plans for her novels.

By Daneet Steffens | September 7, 2021

In <em>Only Murders in the Building</em>, a mystery isn't a mystery until it's a production

In Only Murders in the Building, a mystery isn't a mystery until it's a production

In the new series, three neighbors investigate a murder in their apartment building while making a true crime podcast about it.

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 3, 2021

All I Really Need to Know I Learned Covering Homicides

All I Really Need to Know I Learned Covering Homicides

Life lessons—gleaned from a few decades of reporting on crime and murder.

By Keith Roysdon | September 3, 2021

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'The Way of the Gun’ Was a Nihilistic Rebuke To Everything Cool in Nineties Crime Cinema

By Nick Kolakowski | September 3, 2021

The Puzzling Life and Uncertain Death of Heinrich Feldmann, A Spy in the First World War

By Anna Lee Huber | September 3, 2021

Paul Vidich on Moral Dilemmas and the Allure of Spy Fiction

By CrimeReads | September 3, 2021

How <em>The French Connection</em> Reinvented (and Exploded) the Police Procedural

How The French Connection Reinvented (and Exploded) the Police Procedural

William Friedkin's 1971 masterpiece is all about the chase. That's what distinguishes it from everything that came before and after.

By Chris McGinley | September 2, 2021

What to Stream This September: Robert Redford's Crime Movies

What to Stream This September: Robert Redford's Crime Movies

Nothing takes you from the end of summer to the start of fall like a Robert Redford movie

By Olivia Rutigliano | September 2, 2021

Viking Warriors Were Ultra Violent and Without Mercy: Some Were Women

Viking Warriors Were Ultra Violent and Without Mercy: Some Were Women

The assumption that all Viking warriors were men is an outdated reflection of Victorian culture. The Valkyries, it seems, were real.

By Nancy Marie Brown | September 2, 2021

Why Artifacts Should Be Returned To Their Countries of Origin: A Look Inside The Debate

Why Artifacts Should Be Returned To Their Countries of Origin: A Look Inside The Debate

Many nations have acknowledged that their treasures come from a history of plunder, but they're rather divided on what to give back.

By Gill Paul | September 2, 2021

A Tour of Florida's <br>Haunted Hotels

A Tour of Florida's
Haunted Hotels

Chasing Ghosts in the Sunshine State

By Carol J. Perry | September 2, 2021

12 Crime Novels You Should Read This September

12 Crime Novels You Should Read This September

Northern Irish noir, lakeside horror, plenty of psychological thrillers, and a new novel from Colson Whitehead.

By CrimeReads | September 1, 2021

Remembering <em>Harry O</em>, The Seventies' Second Best, Mostly Forgotten Private Eye Series

Remembering Harry O, The Seventies' Second Best, Mostly Forgotten Private Eye Series

'The Rockford Files' may have outshone the darker noir of 'Harry O', but David Janssen's gumshoe series had lofty ambitions, too.

By J. Kingston Pierce | September 1, 2021

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