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Writing History When the Crime Is Stranger Than Fiction
When it comes to Soviet espionage and the Alger Hiss episode, fiction has to work hard to keep up with the deceptions.
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David Adams Cleveland
| May 17, 2022
10 Reasons Why Victorian England Is the Perfect Setting for Murder
Pea-soup fog, charlatans, death cults, spiritualists, and so much more!
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Connie Berry
| May 12, 2022
My sisters are as intelligent as my brothers: Women’s education in Colonial India
Harini Nagendra recalls the fierce women in her family history who fought for their right to be educated.
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Harini Nagendra
| May 2, 2022
Victoria Thompson: My Favorite Sleuthing Partners
In these historical mysteries, the sleuths have a connection that goes beyond the mere solving of crimes.
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Victoria Thompson
| April 28, 2022
Anna Lee Huber's Top 10 Female Sleuths in Long-Running Historical Mystery Series
"[T]hese heroines each exhibit their own captivating blend of moxie, panache, and ingenuity."
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Anna Lee Huber
| April 21, 2022
The Business of Blackmail in Gilded Age New York
On William d'Alton Mann, prolific gossip columnist and profligate blackmailer.
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W. H. Flint
| April 12, 2022
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The Literary Greats of Scotland
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Paige Shelton
| April 11, 2022
For This Historical Novelist Writing About Gilded Age New York, There's Always More Research to Be Done
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Stacie Murphy
| April 8, 2022
Simon Scarrow on The Fog of World War, Then and Now
A historical fiction writer considers the lessons of WWII for the present day.
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Simon Scarrow
| March 30, 2022
Never Mind the Butler, Worry About the Maids
On The Difficult and Dangerous Lives of 19th Century Domestic Servants
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Kathleen Marple Kalb
| March 28, 2022
How (and Why) I Write Supernatural Historical Fiction
Brian James Gage on the endless delights of introducing real figures from history to supernatural terrors.
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Brian James Gage
| March 24, 2022
What We Can Learn From The Darkest Period in Art History
"Between 1933 – 1945, the Third Reich confiscated, destroyed, and plundered upwards of 650,000 works of art."
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Lisa Barr
| March 17, 2022
Six Novels About Women at Work During the War
They spied, flew planes, ran the factories, and solved all kinds of mysteries and crimes.
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Joyce St. Anthony
| March 17, 2022
Crime and the City: Birmingham
Crime in England’s Second City, “Courtesy of the Peaky B’s”
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Paul French
| March 14, 2022
Qiu Xiaolong and the Return of the Venerable Judge Dee
A beloved mystery series with a legacy stretching back centuries gets new life from China's best known crime author.
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Paul French
| March 9, 2022
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