• Mystery

    The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    Nick Rennison on the early days of American detective fiction and the sleuths who competed with Sherlock Holmes for mystery readers.

    September 8, 2021  By Nick Rennison
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    The 19th Century Women Who Wrote "Weird" Stories and Refused to Pigeonholed by Genre

    A new anthology collects horror and supernatural stories from some of the era's best storytellers.

    September 8, 2021  By Lisa Morton and Leslie Klinger
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    10 Crime Novels About The Cutthroat Business of Culture

    Go behind the scenes in these tales of love, murder and revenge among the glitterati. 

    September 7, 2021  By Helen Walsh
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    In Only Murders in the Building, a mystery isn't a mystery until it's a production

    In the new series, three neighbors investigate a murder in their apartment building while making a true crime podcast about it.

    September 3, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Puzzling Life and Uncertain Death of Heinrich Feldmann, A Spy in the First World War

    The Neutral Netherlands spent WWI riddled with spies, secret agents, and deserters. Their stories are incomplete, and all the more fascinating for it.

    September 3, 2021  By Anna Lee Huber
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    Why Artifacts Should Be Returned To Their Countries of Origin: A Look Inside The Debate

    Many nations have acknowledged that their treasures come from a history of plunder, but they're rather divided on what to give back.

    September 2, 2021  By Gill Paul
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    A Tour of Florida's
    Haunted Hotels

    Chasing Ghosts in the Sunshine State

    September 2, 2021  By Carol J. Perry
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    Remembering Harry O, The Seventies' Second Best, Mostly Forgotten Private Eye Series

    'The Rockford Files' may have outshone the darker noir of 'Harry O', but David Janssen's gumshoe series had lofty ambitions, too.

    September 1, 2021  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    The Luxury Hotels That Gave Succor to the Queens of Golden Age Crime Fiction

    A look at the most inspiring and atmospheric writerly accommodations of the 1920s and 30s.

    September 1, 2021  By Hannah Dennison
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    A Brief Look At Some Mystery Series In Which Sleuths Age Gracefully

    In these long-running series, sleuths are complex, evolving characters, who acknowledge the passage of time.

    August 30, 2021  By Miranda James
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