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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #30

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #30

    The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

    By Otto Penzler | February 13, 2020

    February's Best International Crime Fiction

    February's Best International Crime Fiction

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    100 Years Ago, the World's Biggest Action Star Was a Woman Named Pearl

    100 Years Ago, the World's Biggest Action Star Was a Woman Named Pearl

    The forgotten history of "Fearless Peerless Pearl" and the brief heyday of silent movie action heroines.

    By Radha Vatsal | February 12, 2020

    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    Two authors—working from opposite ends of Florida—bring epic noir series to a close, and live to tell the tale.

    By Steph Post | February 12, 2020

    Four True Crime Cases Where DNA Evidence Yielded Unexpected Results

    Four True Crime Cases Where DNA Evidence Yielded Unexpected Results

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    By Joanna Schaffhausen | February 12, 2020

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #31

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #31

    Murder, My Sweet (1944)

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    The True Crimes of Dallas: A Lifetime's Obssesion

    The True Crimes of Dallas: A Lifetime's Obssesion

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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #32

    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #32

    The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read in February

    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read in February

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    Printing Novels in the Gulag

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    Counting Down the Greatest Crime Films of All-Time: #33

    Criss Cross (1949)

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