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    Justice for the Invisibles, by the Invisibles: A Brief History of Nontraditional Voices in Crime Fiction

    Justice for the Invisibles, by the Invisibles: A Brief History of Nontraditional Voices in Crime Fiction

    American crime stories featuring poor people and nontraditional voices are as old as Poe’s Dupin. And now, they're finally trending.

    By Christopher Chambers | October 14, 2020

    Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal Data Analyst

    Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal Data Analyst

    "While the cops are in the wireroom listening live for the street hustle, I’m at my desk with my herbal tea, listening to recorded calls. Tracing the money."

    By Brian Selfon | October 14, 2020

    How Edward Hopper’s Stony Blonde Became a Noir Icon

    How Edward Hopper’s Stony Blonde Became a Noir Icon

    On The Femme Fatale Who Flipped the Script

    By Stephanie Kane | October 14, 2020

    Kids and Thrillers and Their Freaky Powers

    Kids and Thrillers and Their Freaky Powers

    Because for some strange reason few things are more chilling than a child with a mysterious supernatural power.

    By C.J. Tudor | October 14, 2020

    Let's Explore a Complicated Thriller Archetype: The

    Let's Explore a Complicated Thriller Archetype: The "Vengeful Bitch"

    This Week on Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast

    By Unlikeable Female Characters | October 14, 2020

    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 | October 13, 2020

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    • Exit Party
    • Fallow
    • Our Noble Selves
    • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
    • The Newer World
    • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
    • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
    • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
    • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
    • The Rouse

    7 Great Heist Novels, Recommended By An Art Dealer

    By Carol Orange | October 13, 2020

    In crime fiction, anyone can be a murderer. That's what's so great about it.

    By Lisa Jewell | October 13, 2020

    On Rotwelsch, the Central European Language of Beggars, Travelers and Thieves

    By Martin Puchner | October 13, 2020

    No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction

    No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction

    Mid-century pulps featuring women in love were meant to titillate straight men, but soon found their way to a lesbian audience desperate for representation.

    By Chloe Maveal | October 12, 2020

    James Crumley's Unofficial Rules for Writing

    James Crumley's Unofficial Rules for Writing

    Craft lessons distilled from one of crime fiction's all-time greats.

    By Dwyer Murphy | October 12, 2020

    17 Crime Fiction Series That Use Real Historical Figures As Sleuths

    17 Crime Fiction Series That Use Real Historical Figures As Sleuths

    Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë, and many more appear as detectives in these historical crime novels.

    By Heather Redmond | October 9, 2020

    How Elmore Leonard Really Wrote His Novels—According to His Characters

    How Elmore Leonard Really Wrote His Novels—According to His Characters

    "So he names us and he says okay start talking."

    By Dwyer Murphy | October 9, 2020

    Eight Thrillers That Bring an Uncanny Slant to the Natural World

    Eight Thrillers That Bring an Uncanny Slant to the Natural World

    "The setting of a horror tale needs to create a sense of unheimlich, with the reader every bit as nervous...as the characters."

    By C.J. Cooke | October 9, 2020

    The Moral Morass of the Slasher: Revisiting The Strangely Slapstick Horror of <em>Freddy's Dead</em>

    The Moral Morass of the Slasher: Revisiting The Strangely Slapstick Horror of Freddy's Dead

    If horror exists to reinforce the status quo, then how did we end up rooting for Freddy?

    By Paul Michael Anderson | October 9, 2020

    Chandler and the Fox: The Mid-Century Correspondence Between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox

    Chandler and the Fox: The Mid-Century Correspondence Between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox

    Chandler's letters to a younger crime writer offer a revealing—and often ugly—glimpse into his later years.

    By Curtis Evans | October 8, 2020

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