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    Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history.

    Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history.

    Looking back on 100 years of the Queen of Crime.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 3, 2020

    The Rise of Australian True Crime Podcasts

    The Rise of Australian True Crime Podcasts

    Author Sara Foster on the growing world of true crime podcasting from down under.

    By Sara Foster | April 3, 2020

    Border Stories: A Guide to the Novels of Don Winslow

    Border Stories: A Guide to the Novels of Don Winslow

    The evolution of a career in crime fiction, from surf noir to borderland epics.

    By Bruce Riordan | April 3, 2020

    Hilary Davidson and Susan Elia MacNeal on Writing PTSD in Fiction

    Hilary Davidson and Susan Elia MacNeal on Writing PTSD in Fiction

    Two acclaimed mystery authors compare the research and processes it takes to create traumatized characters

    By Susan Elia MacNeal and Hilary Davidson | April 3, 2020

    Crime in the Time of Corona: How Genre Fiction Leads Us Through the Darkness

    Crime in the Time of Corona: How Genre Fiction Leads Us Through the Darkness

    In times of crisis, we turn to mystery.

    By Lyndsay Faye | April 2, 2020

    My First Thriller: Lee Child

    My First Thriller: Lee Child

    How the creator of Jack Reacher got fired, started writing, found a pen name, found an agent, and launched a new career.

    By Rick Pullen | April 2, 2020

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    Our Personalized Quarantine Crime Fiction Recommendations: Part 1

    By Molly Odintz | April 2, 2020

    Raymond Chandler Wanted Cary Grant to Play Philip Marlowe.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 2, 2020

    10 Books You Should Read This April

    By CrimeReads | April 1, 2020

    The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America

    The Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America

    A society under strain turned to wholesale abduction and ransom.

    By David Stout | April 1, 2020

    These Are Plot Descriptions of Actual Episodes from the 1960s Spy Television Series <em>The Man From U.N.C.L.E</em>, and Wow they are… Insane

    These Are Plot Descriptions of Actual Episodes from the 1960s Spy Television Series The Man From U.N.C.L.E, and Wow they are… Insane

    Sometimes the best medicine is bonkers 60s spycraft.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | April 1, 2020

    Vidocq and the Birth of the Fictional Detective

    Vidocq and the Birth of the Fictional Detective

    The ex-convict turned police detective who inspired generations of authors and helped launch a new genre of literature.

    By Nick Kolakowski | April 1, 2020

    The Complicated Literature of Daughters and Mothers

    The Complicated Literature of Daughters and Mothers

    The deepest bond, full of love, affection, resentment, jealousy, and sometimes danger.

    By Amy Engel | March 31, 2020

    The Man Who Can’t Be Beat: <em>Peaky Blinders</em> and the Rise of Fascism

    The Man Who Can’t Be Beat: Peaky Blinders and the Rise of Fascism

    The Shelby crime family finds a new politics in 1920's Birmingham.

    By Torrey Crim | March 31, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 23

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: # 23

    Vertigo (1958)

    By Otto Penzler | March 31, 2020

    8 Great Novels Where Things Disappear 

    8 Great Novels Where Things Disappear 

    Things, people, time, space...these are different than the usual disappearances.

    By Lincoln Michel | March 30, 2020

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