• Features

    17 Crime Fiction Series That Use Real Historical Figures As Sleuths

    Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë, and many more appear as detectives in these historical crime novels.

    October 9, 2020  By Heather Redmond
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    How Elmore Leonard Really Wrote His Novels—According to His Characters

    "So he names us and he says okay start talking."

    October 9, 2020  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Eight Thrillers That Bring an Uncanny Slant to the Natural World

    "The setting of a horror tale needs to create a sense of unheimlich, with the reader every bit as nervous...as the characters."

    October 9, 2020  By C.J. Cooke
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    The Moral Morass of the Slasher: Revisiting The Strangely Slapstick Horror of Freddy's Dead

    If horror exists to reinforce the status quo, then how did we end up rooting for Freddy?

    October 9, 2020  By Paul Michael Anderson
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    Chandler and the Fox: The Mid-Century Correspondence Between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox

    Chandler's letters to a younger crime writer offer a revealing—and often ugly—glimpse into his later years.

    October 8, 2020  By Curtis Evans
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    The Strange Poetry of a Notorious Gangster's Last Words

    In 1935, Dutch Schultz was shot in a Newark steakhouse. His deathbed monologue would inspire an unusual literary legacy.

    October 8, 2020  By Michael Cannell
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    The Con: Portraits of Grifters and Scam Artists in Book, Film, and Real Life

    "The con artist has a special gift for knowing what we want and giving it to us, then taking what they were after all along."

    October 8, 2020  By Lisa Unger
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    Memories of an Accidental Mystery Writer

    When Sherry Thomas added a little murder to her historical romances, she struck genre-mixing gold.

    October 8, 2020  By Sherry Thomas
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    The Strange History of Mickey Spillane and New Zealand's "Jukebox Killer"

    In 1950s New Zealand, public fear over American pulp novels reached its unlikely peak, with one boy stabbed and another hanged for it.

    October 7, 2020  By Andrew Nette
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    5 Psychological Thrillers You Should Read This October

    Missing husbands, murdered trainers, and feminist revenge killers.

    October 7, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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