• Mystery

    The Rise of the London Police and the 1877 Scandal That Nearly Shut Down Scotland Yard

    The Trial of the Detectives

    November 11, 2021  By Karen Odden
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    Code Blue: Ballard, Bosch and a City in Crisis in Michael Connelly's The Dark Hours

    Connelly – the shadow historian for the LAPD and the city of Los Angeles – shows both institutions approaching a crisis point.

    November 10, 2021  By Bruce Riordan
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    The Story of the Selkie: Eight Novels Based in Powerful Folklore

    Half woman, half seal, they come from the sea and suffer injustice at the hands of men.

    November 10, 2021  By Melanie Golding
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    Rex Pickett On The Strange Experience of Donating His Papers To The Archives

    When the author of Sideways sent his papers off to be catalogued, he never expected to find inspiration for his next novel.

    November 9, 2021  By Rex Pickett
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    Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50

    "The soft-boiled genre is embedded firmly between the cozy and the hard-boiled, like middle-aged and elder women ensconced between siren and senior."

    November 8, 2021  By Gabrielle St. George
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    The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

    What makes crime stories so therapeutic? Writer and family counselor Lynne Reeves has some theories.

    November 8, 2021  By Lynne Reeves
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    Columbo's First Case: How One of TV's Most Iconic Detectives Got His Start

    “Columbo” got a trial run on “Alfred Hitchcock” – and so did his first quarry.

    November 4, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

    A Christie Curriculum

    November 4, 2021  By Lori Rader-Day
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    The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

    "Have you ever stopped to think about how the items in books help to define our favorite characters?"

    November 4, 2021  By Heather Redmond
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    When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

    "You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

    November 4, 2021  By Anne Emery
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