• Historical

    Metropolis

    Philip Kerr

    "Mathilde Luz was a good-looking girl all right and still wearing the clothes she’d been murdered in: the hat, the coat, and the dress all from C&A, but no less becoming for that."

    April 10, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Vice and Virtue
    in the Newgate Novel

    How 18th Century Crime Bulletins Inspired The Earliest Crime Fiction (And the Earliest Backlash Against Crime Fiction)

    April 8, 2019  By Rebecca Rego Barry
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    The Victorian Quack: Between Folklore and Science

    A Brief Survey of Victorian "Cures"

    April 8, 2019  By Oscar De Muriel
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    Who Slays the Wicked

    C.S. Harris

    "His name was Sir Felix Paige, and he’d been a friend of Ashworth since the two were boys together at Eton."

    April 5, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Birth of the Modern
    Ghost Story

    On Spiritualism, Seances, and the Evolution of Ghostly Literature

    April 2, 2019  By Lisa Morton and Leslie Klinger
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    CrimeReads Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories of the Month

    March's Best CrimeReads Features

    March 29, 2019  By CrimeReads 
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    Jacqueline Winspear Wants Us
    To Respect The Dead

    The Historical Crime Novelist Talks Maisie Dobbs, Research, and British Sang-Froid

    March 26, 2019  By Molly Odintz
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    The Malta Exchange

    Steve Berry

    "They approached the obelisk."

    March 25, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    When The Past Comes Back to Haunt the Present

    6 Crime Novels Where Past and Present Crimes Are Connected

    March 19, 2019  By S. C. Perkins
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    The Eastern European Thriller: Divided Cities, Divided Loyalties

    5 Novels from a Region Where Trauma and Mystery Run Deep

    March 19, 2019  By Elisabeth Elo
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