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    Setting a Murder Mystery in the Real Hollywood Canteen Required Piercing a Veil of Myth and Nostalgia

    Setting a Murder Mystery in the Real Hollywood Canteen Required Piercing a Veil of Myth and Nostalgia

    The Hollywood canteen was where soldiers went to dance and everyone was equal. That was the story, anyway.

    By Susan Elia MacNeal | July 9, 2021

    Amnesia in Literature and Film

    Amnesia in Literature and Film

    Unreliable narrators and mysteries of memory ratchet up the suspense in remarkable ways.

    By Liv Constantine | July 9, 2021

    Charlotte Philby Remembers Her Paradoxical Grandfather, Kim Philby

    Charlotte Philby Remembers Her Paradoxical Grandfather, Kim Philby

    Why are people drawn to espionage fiction? For Philby, the answer has always been personal

    By Charlotte Philby | July 8, 2021

    Sunny Palm Springs Is A Perfect Setting for Noir

    Sunny Palm Springs Is A Perfect Setting for Noir

    "On a steamy summer day, the residential streets are absent of people and can possess an unsettling quiet. Where is everyone?"

    By Barbara DeMarco-Barrett | July 8, 2021

    In True Crime, We Find a Deep, Elusive Connection

    In True Crime, We Find a Deep, Elusive Connection

    The best true crime is an invitation to believe that our opinions and our empathy matter.

    By Jessica Chiarella | July 8, 2021

    How Voltaire Helped Spread the Legend of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner, The Man in the Iron Mask

    How Voltaire Helped Spread the Legend of Europe's Most Famous Prisoner, The Man in the Iron Mask

    In 18th century Europe, there was no greater conspiracy theory than the one surrounding "L'homme au masque de fer"

    By Josephine Wilkinson | July 8, 2021

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    The Most Murdered Woman in the World

    By April Snellings | July 7, 2021

    A List of Thrillers About Thrillers (and the People Who Write Them)

    By David Bell | July 7, 2021

    On Loving, and Leaving, Barcelona

    By Rupert Thomson | July 7, 2021

    "L’affaire Flactif": How Racist Motivations Were Overlooked in a Family Homicide

    According to the press, David Hotyat murdered an entire family out of jealousy. But his true motivations were much more sinister.

    By Samira Sedira | July 7, 2021

    Inside the Fiction Group in a Maximum-Security Psychiatric Hospital

    Inside the Fiction Group in a Maximum-Security Psychiatric Hospital

    "They’d talk about what ward they were on, their security level, the medication they were taking, and how long they’d been at Perkins, but I never heard a patient ask another patient about their crime."

    By Mikita Brottman | July 7, 2021

    The Art of Rejection: How One Author Pushed Through 41 Rejections and Kept on Waiting for Life-Changing News

    The Art of Rejection: How One Author Pushed Through 41 Rejections and Kept on Waiting for Life-Changing News

    To achieve her dream, T.J. Newman first had to cope with the bad news, again and again.

    By T.J. Newman | July 6, 2021

    How Agatha Christie Helped Popularize Surfing—Yes, Surfing

    How Agatha Christie Helped Popularize Surfing—Yes, Surfing

    The Queen of Crime was a woman of adventure.

    By Jim Kempton | July 6, 2021

    The Women Who Became Sex Radicals and Changed the Course of American History

    The Women Who Became Sex Radicals and Changed the Course of American History

    Ida Craddock and her fellow free lovers took on Anthony Comstock and the patriarchy. Why has history mostly forgotten them?

    By Amy Sohn | July 6, 2021

    7 Coming-of-Age Mysteries That Capture

    7 Coming-of-Age Mysteries That Capture "The Oddness of the Moment in Question"

    Will these protagonists succumb to the rigid spaces of adulthood, or rebel and find a path all their own?

    By Rachel Donohue | July 6, 2021

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    By CrimeReads | July 5, 2021

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