• Mystery

    On Growing Up in a Family of Murder Mystery Addicts

    Katy Watson spent her childhood surrounded by (fictional) murder. So why did it take her so long to write a murder mystery?

    August 1, 2022  By Katy Watson
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    Shop Talk: Dwyer Murphy on Writing Routines, Superstitions, and Reading Elmore Leonard Like a Bible

    Crime writers talking craft, classics, and too much coffee.

    July 28, 2022  By Eli Cranor
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    Anarchism: Beauty and Terror in the 1890s

    "Anarchism was born from the ugliness of industrialization"

    July 26, 2022  By Nev March
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    The Social Importance of the Tearoom

    "But the history of the tearoom is more complex and meaningful than first meets the eye."

    July 25, 2022  By Vicki Delany
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    Cheesy Murder: The Deadly Role of Cheese in Crime Fiction

    Discover the dark side of fromage...

    July 22, 2022  By Paula Munier
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    Milton Propper: Scion and Imitator of the Golden Age Mystery, Pioneer of the Procedural

    Was Milton Propper's writing politically conservative, New Deal liberal, or simply in imitation of his peers?

    July 22, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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    My First Thriller: Laura Lippman

    How Lippman went from Baltimore reporter to crime fiction icon...with a few obstacles along the way.

    July 21, 2022  By Rick Pullen
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    Little Essays on Sherlock Holmes: "The Engineer's Thumb"

    Olivia Rutigliano close-reads one of the strangest Holmes stories

    July 20, 2022  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Why do so many long-running series work so well?

    A many-installment series is not easy to pull off, but when done right, the results are often epic.

    July 20, 2022  By Colleen Coble
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    Musician and Author Don Bruns On Putting Together A Music-Themed Anthology

    "Where did I get friendly enough to ask these elites to contribute to Hotel California? At the Hotel Bar."

    July 18, 2022  By Don Bruns
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