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    Six Perfectly Alluring Academic Mysteries

    Six Perfectly Alluring Academic Mysteries

    From libraries to dining halls, from manslaughter to murder

    By Edwin Hill | January 22, 2021

    That time Sherlock Holmes appeared in an Arsène Lupin story as

    That time Sherlock Holmes appeared in an Arsène Lupin story as "Herlock Sholmès"

    When author Maurice Leblanc tried to write the great English detective into his latest Arsène Lupin story, Arthur Conan Doyle protested. Fortunately, Leblanc found a solution.

    By Olivia Rutigliano | January 22, 2021

    The Mystery Is Holmes: Why We Return to Conan Doyle's Stories Over and Over Again

    The Mystery Is Holmes: Why We Return to Conan Doyle's Stories Over and Over Again

    "if Holmes’s thoughts were laid bare, if his methods ever became commonplace, then Holmes would lose his mystery..."

    By Timothy Miller | January 21, 2021

    What Writing About the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre Taught Me About the Madness of Crowds

    What Writing About the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre Taught Me About the Madness of Crowds

    A historical fiction author considers a sixteenth century atrocity with too many lessons for the present, and the role of fiction in representing the past.

    By Kate Mosse | January 21, 2021

    When Poe Invented the Detective Story, he Changed the Literary World Forever

    When Poe Invented the Detective Story, he Changed the Literary World Forever

    Poe's contemporaries and forebears had a lot to say about the new genre, and his detective, the brilliant Dupin

    By Olivia Rutigliano | January 19, 2021

    Winter Thrillers: Snowstorms, Mountain Chalets, and Murder

    Winter Thrillers: Snowstorms, Mountain Chalets, and Murder

    You're on the mountaintop, a storm blows in, the phone lines go dead...

    By Allie Reynolds | January 19, 2021

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    Detective Fiction and Dementia: A Biopsy

    By Frederick Weisel | January 15, 2021

    A Novel Is So Much More Than Just The Sum of Its Parts

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    Lee Child and Paraic O'Donnell on Moral Codes, Punching Nazis, and Human Evolution

    Lee Child and Paraic O'Donnell on Moral Codes, Punching Nazis, and Human Evolution

    Two authors go deep on the history and significance of Reacher.

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    Every Mystery Writer Knows, You Can Kill Anyone <br>But The Dog

    Every Mystery Writer Knows, You Can Kill Anyone
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    Sulari Gentill on crime fiction's most unbreakable rule

    By Sulari Gentill | January 12, 2021

    ‘Funny, How?’ Why Comedy is Crucial in Crime Writing

    ‘Funny, How?’ Why Comedy is Crucial in Crime Writing

    From the earliest days of crime fiction, humor has always been one of the author's most important weapons.

    By Christopher Fowler | January 11, 2021

    All Epistolary Novels Are Mysteries

    All Epistolary Novels Are Mysteries

    What's more suspenseful than waiting on a letter from someone with a story to tell?

    By Amy Stewart | January 11, 2021

    A Short History of Classic TV’s Most Unusual Investigators

    A Short History of Classic TV’s Most Unusual Investigators

    In the late Sixties everyone wanted to create a TV detective. But how to make your fictional sleuth stand apart?

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    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: The Woman Who Brought the Cuban-American Experience to Miami Noir

    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: The Woman Who Brought the Cuban-American Experience to Miami Noir

    In 1980s Miami, she was a mother of three who wanted to write crime novels. So she got herself a job as a private eye.

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    The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021

    The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021

    89 mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels to get you through the year.

    By Molly Odintz | January 7, 2021

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