• Mystery

    The Poison Pen Letter: The Early 20th Century's Strangest Crime Wave

    Across America and Europe, people couldn't stop writing nasty letters. Soon the courts were overwhelmed with epistolary assaults.

    March 10, 2020  By Curtis Evans
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    Crime and the City: Saigon

    In the long shadow of Graham Greene's The Quiet American, a city's crime fiction scene thrives.

    March 9, 2020  By Paul French
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    How Do You Write a Mystery When Every Plot Is Taken?

    How to Mix Things Up, Do Justice to Tradition, and Still Keep Your Crime Writing Fresh

    March 9, 2020  By Tessa Wegert
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    Sixteen of the Most Perfect Murders in Crime Fiction

    Reading and re-reading mystery novels in pursuit of the platonic ideal of the undetectable, unsolvable crime.

    March 6, 2020  By Peter Swanson
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    The 19 Best Crime-Solving Writers in Fiction, Ranked

    A cold, hard look at the detective and writing skills of Rick Castle, Harriet Vane, and more.

    March 5, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    In 1899, Arthur Conan Doyle Took Dictation for His Dying Friend's Mystery Novel

    Grant Allen was a bestselling science writer, almost done with his serial Hilda Wade when he fell ill

    March 4, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Fact, Fiction, and a DNA Surprise

    I usually take my plot ideas from real life headlines—but when a DNA test yielded an unexpected result, I decided to make my latest novel personal.

    March 4, 2020  By Betty Webb
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    She Lover of Death

    Boris Akunin

    "She spent several hours preparing for her meeting with Harlequin and left the house in good time, in order to make her first gala promenade through the streets of Moscow without hurrying and give the city a chance to admire its new inhabitant."

    March 3, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Joanne Fluke Has Some Recipes to Die For

    Time to get baking with these criminally delicious recipes from the Hannah Swensen mystery series.

    February 28, 2020  By Joanne Fluke
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    The New Vulnerability in the Mystery Genre

    The use—and misuse—of mental health disorders in crime fiction.

    February 25, 2020  By Peter Swanson
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