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The Business of Blackmail in Gilded Age New York

On William d'Alton Mann, prolific gossip columnist and profligate blackmailer.

Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

Mark Arsenault on the scandals that would eventually unite two journalists in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

C. S. Harris on Historical Fiction and Her Iconic Regency-Era Series

"Every era has free-thinkers, people who don’t subscribe to the prejudices and superstitions of their day."

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

Faroe Islands: The Most Remote Outpost of Scandi Noir

A few good mystery novels help to pass the long winter nights on this North Atlantic archipelago.

The Literary Greats of Scotland

Paige Shelton, author of the Scottish Bookshop mysteries, celebrates Scotland's Big Three.

Tokyo Vice Revisits the Last Days of a Striking Genre

The new series, which is about journalists, police, and yakuza circling one another in milennium-era Japan, is invested in the long history, and fading future, of such a triangle.

How ‘Satanic Panic’ Came to Roil the Nation During the 1980s

TV movies, breathless news reports, and amateur symbologists all played a part in the panic's mysterious spread through 1980s America.

On Junk Science and Poverty

How did civil litigation, where money is at stake, end up with more accurate scientific evidence than the criminal justice system, where life and liberty are at stake?

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