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Love, theft, and rural noir dominate this year's best noir fiction.

The Girl Detective Disappears: On Searching for Nancy Drew, and Finding Myself

Nancy Drew has always been a liminal figure, caught between girl and woman, masculine and feminine, traditional and modern...

On the Incredible, Gruesome Legacy of Paris's Grand Guignol Theater

Exaggerated spectacles of violence and gore played to fainting audiences night after night, for six decades

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

The Best Crime Novels of 2020

Celebrating the year's best in crime, mystery, and thrillers.

Thirty Years Later, Is Goodfellas The Greatest Mob Movie Ever Made?

A demented, predatory nihilism runs through Martin Scorsese's 1990 mob classic, and audiences are still cheering for it. Why?

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The Politically Engaged, Wildly Entertaining Novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II

He's one of the world's most popular crime writers. And his critiques of systemic corruption are as incisive as ever.

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