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    My First Thriller: S.A. Cosby

    My First Thriller: S.A. Cosby

    The making of a crime fiction sensation.

    By Rick Pullen | November 3, 2022

    Simenon in America

    Simenon in America

    How Georges Simenon escaped a reckoning at the end of WWII by fleeing to the United States.

    By Gregory Galloway | November 3, 2022

    Yeah Noir: Discovering New Zealand Crime Fiction

    Yeah Noir: Discovering New Zealand Crime Fiction

    Four Kiwi authors you should be reading now.

    By Jacqueline Bublitz | November 1, 2022

    What Can We Learn From A 1794 Novel About Turning Points In Crime Fiction?

    What Can We Learn From A 1794 Novel About Turning Points In Crime Fiction?

    Caleb Williams..."">"The reader can see the seed of many other stories of crime fiction in Caleb Williams..."

    By Heather Redmond | November 1, 2022

    The Big Sleep and The Black Cat

    The Big Sleep and The Black Cat

    Or, searching for queer culture in the era of hard-boiled fiction.

    By Lev AC Rosen | October 24, 2022

     Where is the ‘Street Crime’ in ‘Crime Fiction?’

     Where is the ‘Street Crime’ in ‘Crime Fiction?’

    Crimes that are both everyday and yet brutal seem to be front and center only in a small subset of the mystery/thriller/suspense genre. Is that taste, craft—or something that should make us all a little uncomfortable?

    By Christopher Chambers | October 21, 2022

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    5 Uniquely Chicanx/Latinx Representations in Crime Fiction

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    The Literary Blood Feud between Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald

    By Curtis Evans | October 7, 2022

    From Surviving Evil to Prosecuting Evil to Writing Evil

    From Surviving Evil to Prosecuting Evil to Writing Evil

    "I was 30 when I first prosecuted a child sexual abuse case, the eventual focus of my life’s work as an attorney."

    By Roger A. Canaff | October 5, 2022

    Why Cold War Noir is Back in Play

    Why Cold War Noir is Back in Play

    "[T]he Cold War is an extra character that serves as the best sort of Noir villain..."

    By M. Z. Urlocker | September 30, 2022

    The Myth and the Reality of Violence in the Old West

    The Myth and the Reality of Violence in the Old West

    "If our hope is for a more robust understanding of history, we must seek out the true villains in every story and update our myths accordingly."

    By Chase Pletts | September 29, 2022

    O Brother, Where Art Thou Contemporary Southern Women Writers?

    O Brother, Where Art Thou Contemporary Southern Women Writers?

    How the "And Flannery" affliction erases Southern women writers.

    By Kelly J. Ford | September 28, 2022

    On Theda Bara and the Origins of the Vamp

    On Theda Bara and the Origins of the Vamp

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    By Michael Mayo | September 27, 2022

    How Rudy Ruiz and His Neo-Western Aim to Change the Conversation About the U.S.-Mexico Border

    How Rudy Ruiz and His Neo-Western Aim to Change the Conversation About the U.S.-Mexico Border

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    Six YA Thrillers where Teens Fight the System

    Six YA Thrillers where Teens Fight the System

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