• Historical

    Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar

    Kate Saunders

    "I wrote to Rachel Somers as soon as I got home, boldly announcing my arrival the following week."

    December 6, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Under Occupation

    Alan Furst

    "In early October, the first of the Autumn storms Began in the late afternoon, with rumbles of thunder up in Normandy somewhere, then, by nightfall, the rain reached Paris, where it beat against the windows of the gray city and streamed down the channels at the edges of the cobblestone streets."

    November 26, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Film Noir Perfectly Captures the Mass Torment and Paranoia of the Mid-Twentieth Century

    Movies and Literature Were Insistent that Society was a Madhouse

    November 20, 2019  By Troy Rondinone
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    The Second Sleep

    Robert Harris

    "Something woke him. He was not sure what. The room was in such darkness that between his eyes being shut and open there was no difference."

    November 19, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Victorian Mystery Novels Set Around the World—Yes, That's Right, Outside England

    Japan, Russia, Brazil...Victorian-era historical fiction is so much more than London streets and British Empire.

    November 14, 2019  By Will Thomas
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    Miss Sherlock is the Smartest, Most Intuitive Sherlock Holmes Adaptation We've Seen in a While

    On Japan's female-led Sherlock Holmes reboot and how it understands its characters while transforming them.

    November 7, 2019  By Radha Vatsal
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    26 Years Later, Nicholas Meyer Is Returning to Sherlock Holmes. Why Now?

    The legendary author and director sets Sherlock Holmes on the trail of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.'

    November 6, 2019  By Adam Langer
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    Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders

    Tessa Arlen

    "Police Inspector Hargreaves of Wickham’s Criminal Investigation Department loomed over me as I sat on the edge of my chair."

    November 5, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Havana: A World Capital of Crime Fiction

    Crime and the City Visits Cuba

    November 4, 2019  By Paul French
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    Why Penny Dreadfuls Scandalized Victorian Society—But Flew off the Shelves

    On the Sensational, Sensationalistic Victorian Literary Phenomenon

    November 4, 2019  By Wendy Trimboli and Alicia Zaloga 
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