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The Perfect Beers to Pair with Your Favorite Crime Novels

The Perfect Beers to Pair with Your Favorite Crime Novels

Reading some noir? Try some double IPA. And if you're making your way through a Poirot, you must have a Belgian Stout.

By Steven Tingle | August 12, 2021

What's the Secret to Writing a Bestseller? Hint: There Isn't One.

What's the Secret to Writing a Bestseller? Hint: There Isn't One.

"No one—and I mean no one, not your editor, not the publisher, not the critics—has any idea what makes one book sell millions of copies while other, often better, books do not."

By Joy Fielding | August 11, 2021

Florence Rush and the Providence White Slavers

Florence Rush and the Providence White Slavers

The profitable panic that inspired both journalists and crime writers to focus on the (extremely exaggerated) crisis of "white slavery"

By Curtis Evans | August 10, 2021

The Rise of Welsh Crime Fiction

The Rise of Welsh Crime Fiction

A country of just over three million people is producing a good deal of the world's most addictive crime fiction.

By Paul French | August 9, 2021

Rediscovering the Sly, Seductive Jazz Mysteries of Charlotte Carter

Rediscovering the Sly, Seductive Jazz Mysteries of Charlotte Carter

30 years ago, Carter addressed racism, colorism, classism, and sexism head on. Her books feel just as relevant today.

By Caitlin Landuyt | August 9, 2021

Murder on the Move: Suspense Novels Set on Trains, Boats & Transport

Murder on the Move: Suspense Novels Set on Trains, Boats & Transport

Louise Candlish on the long, proud tradition of setting mysteries on moving vehicles.

By Louise Candlish | August 6, 2021

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Five Novels About Journalists Returning to Their Hometowns to Investigate Crimes

By Claire Douglas | August 6, 2021

Perfume Thieves and the History of Temptation

By Timothy Schaffert | August 5, 2021

Sophie Hannah on the Literary Side of Agatha Christie: "Her style is not simplistic but, rather, beautifully simple."

By Sophie Hannah | August 4, 2021

Rediscovering the Gin-Soaked Screwball Mysteries of Craig Rice

Rediscovering the Gin-Soaked Screwball Mysteries of Craig Rice

She was on the cover of Time, tore through an unknown number of marriages, and held onto her highball all the while.

By Lisa Lutz | August 3, 2021

What Life Was Really Like for a Private Detective in the 1970s

What Life Was Really Like for a Private Detective in the 1970s

Telephone directories, street maps, pay phones, and CB radios were the tools of the PI trade back in the 1970s.

By James V. Irving | August 2, 2021

Rain City Rediscovered: Why Crime Novelists Are Drawn to Seattle

Rain City Rediscovered: Why Crime Novelists Are Drawn to Seattle

Glen Erik Hamilton returns to his hometown of Seattle to find nothing is where he left it.

By Glen Erik Hamilton | July 28, 2021

Where Are the Stay-At-Home Dads of Fiction?

Where Are the Stay-At-Home Dads of Fiction?

There are 1.5 million stay-at-home dads in the US. So why are there only a handful to be found in crime novels?

By Brad Parks | July 28, 2021

13 Must-Read Laugh-Out-Loud Mysteries

13 Must-Read Laugh-Out-Loud Mysteries

"Hilarity ensues. And ensues. And ensues some more."

By Darynda Jones | July 27, 2021

Crime Novels Set on the Greek Islands: Sun, Souvlaki and Sinister Types

Crime Novels Set on the Greek Islands: Sun, Souvlaki and Sinister Types

Crime and the City goes island-hopping in search of mystery.

By Paul French | July 26, 2021

A Cozy Mystery Writer on the History of Class and Tea

A Cozy Mystery Writer on the History of Class and Tea

Wealthy drawing rooms, middle class parlors, working-class tea houses: on the many ways that the British take their tea.

By Vicki Delany | July 26, 2021

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