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The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

What makes crime stories so therapeutic? Writer and family counselor Lynne Reeves has some theories.

Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend? November 2021

Brand new Korean thrillers and not so new but still very worthwhile Gabriel Byrne slow-burns.

Josephine Tey and the Detection Club: A Mystery Solved

Tey was invited to join the Detection Club, yet her name never appeared on the membership roll. What happened?

Fatalism Has Always Been at the Core of the Bond Series

It was there in Fleming's books and now it's in the movies, too: James Bond wants to die.

In Last Night in Soho, Too Much Nostalgia Can Be Dangerous

Rather than romanticize the past, the new film demands that you understand the bad alongside the beautiful.

What One Lawyer Learned Living with Nuns in Alabama While Representing a Man on Death Row

When Donald Cameron Clark, Jr. teamed up with a lawyering nun to save a man's life, he learned to look beyond expectations.

Columbo's First Case: How One of TV's Most Iconic Detectives Got His Start

“Columbo” got a trial run on “Alfred Hitchcock” – and so did his first quarry.

What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

A Christie Curriculum

The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

"Have you ever stopped to think about how the items in books help to define our favorite characters?"

When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

"You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

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