• Mystery

    Can You Really Separate Edgar Allan Poe's Work from His Life?

    Sarah Weinman on "the Gordian knot holding together Poe's tumultuous life and fragmented personality with his body of work"—and an audacious biography.

    June 19, 2020  By Sarah Weinman
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    Are We Only Capable of Writing Liars?

    An author reflects on an attempt to write a truthful narrator.

    June 18, 2020  By Elizabeth Kay
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    Crime in a Tenured Position:
    The Feminist Mysteries of Carolyn Heilbrun

    As Amanda Cross, Carolyn Heilbrun used her Kate Fansler series to explore academia, politics, and modern womanhood.

    June 17, 2020  By Marlowe Benn
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    How the Flavia de Luce Series Investigates the Traditional English Village Murder Mystery

    On death, preservation, genius, detectives, villages, and eighteenth-century graveyard poems

    June 16, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery

    Rosalie Knecht

    "The morning after Jane left me, I woke in a Russian diner that overlooked the boardwalk at Brighton Beach, sitting upright in the corner of a booth."

    June 16, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Mostly Forgotten Irish Crime Novelist at the Center of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

    On the enormously influential works of a Golden Age innovator.

    June 15, 2020  By Shane Mawe
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    We're on a Mission to Help You Parse Through All the Crime Books with 'Girl' in the Title

    The third installment of The Great Disambiguation Project

    June 15, 2020  By Lisa Levy
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    Growing Up In a Small Town, Books Opened My World

    How fiction helped me learn about the world beyond my small mining town—and gave me a new understanding of my home.

    June 12, 2020  By J.A. Jance
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    Seven Thrillers About Identity and Reinvention

    Can you truly know the people in your life? Or yourself?

    June 10, 2020  By Catherine McKenzie
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    Lillie Langtry and the 19th Century's Gentlewomen Influencers

    On the rise of the "Professional Beauty"

    June 10, 2020  By Laurie R. King
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