• Mystery

    Takes One to Know One

    Susan Isaacs

    "Last night I dreamt I went to Queens Boulevard again."

    September 30, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    The Magic of Maine's Thrillers

    Tess Gerritsen on America's Hotbed of Gothic Fiction

    September 24, 2019  By Tess Gerritsen
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    Remembering an Odd, Artful 'Requiem for the Detective Novel'

    In 1950, the Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt published a lost classic of crime fiction.

    September 24, 2019  By Gilly Macmillan
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    Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

    "Most of Downing College, with the exception of the East Lodge, was built of an oolitic limestone known as Ketton stone."

    September 24, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    "In a Glass Darkly"

    Agatha Christie

    "I’ve no explanation of this story. I’ve no theories about the why and wherefore of it. It’s just a thing—that happened."

    September 20, 2019  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    A Crime Author Grapples With the Old Question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?

    Reed Farrel Coleman on "borrowing from the headlines" and continuing a beloved Robert B. Parker series.

    September 19, 2019  By Reed Farrel Coleman
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    Craig Johnson on the Enduring Popularity of Longmire and Its Deeply Human Characters

    Three years after the series wrap, Johnson is still crafting complex worlds for Walt Longmire—and readers are still connecting.

    September 18, 2019  By Scott Montgomery
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    The Golden Age Detective Fiction Renaissance

    How Agatha Christie and her Golden Age cohorts came back into fashion, and why that's reviving the traditional mystery.

    September 17, 2019  By Martin Edwards
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    50 Years Ago, Scooby Doo Was the Perfect, Weird, Hopeful Mystery Series 1969 Needed

    An unlikely gang of mystery-solvers set out to change the world.

    September 13, 2019  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    How Scooby Doo Revived Gothic Storytelling for Generations of Kids

    In a tumultuous era, a kids mystery show stirred up the old questions—and the atmosphere—of gothic storytelling.

    September 13, 2019  By Eleni Theodoropoulos
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