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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Murder: A Roadside Killing and The Novel That Captured an Era
On Nevada’s 1940 "One-Cent Hitchhiker Slaying"
By
Curtis Evans
| January 27, 2021
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices: When Characters Face Existential Dilemmas
A look at five films where morality is supplanted by need
By
Thomas H. Carry
| January 27, 2021
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics
In 1965, a pair of radical bohemian journalists invented Scandinavian Noir and reimagined what crime fiction could do.
By
Neil Nyren
| January 22, 2021
The Long, Unusual Career of Russell James, the "Godfather of British Noir"
He didn't set out to write crime novels. Thirty years later, he still doesn't recognize any genre boundaries.
By
Peter Handel
| January 22, 2021
Paula Hawkins on Patricia Highsmith's
Strangers on a Train
, 70 Years Later
The author of
The Girl on the Train
appreciates Highsmith's uniquely sickening vision of humanity.
By
Paula Hawkins
| January 20, 2021
Poison in the Ear: Why Iago Is the Ultimate Thriller Character
Shakespeare's villain, in all his treachery and complexity, still resonates, centuries later.
By
Chris Harding Thornton
| January 20, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Patricia Highsmith and the Women Who Inspired Ripley
By
Richard Bradford
| January 19, 2021
What the Iconic Outfits in
Laura
Say About Feminism, Fashion, and Film Noir
By
Kimberley Truhler
| January 13, 2021
The Literature of Children Who Raise Themselves and Demand Justice
By
Una Mannion
| January 13, 2021
The Thrill of Researching Your Crime Novel
You, too, can travel the world, speak to interesting people, and craft convincing lies about murder and mayhem.
By
Lee Goldberg
| January 12, 2021
The State of California Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion
California crime writers discuss police, fires, pandemic, proposition politics, and the future of crime fiction.
By
Lisa Levy
| January 11, 2021
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: The Woman Who Brought the Cuban-American Experience to Miami Noir
In 1980s Miami, she was a mother of three who wanted to write crime novels. So she got herself a job as a private eye.
By
Craig Pittman
| January 8, 2021
The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021
89 mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels to get you through the year.
By
Molly Odintz
| January 7, 2021
My First Thriller: Lawrence Block
Sixty years later, Block says writing midcentury erotica was an "ideal apprenticeship" for a life in crime fiction.
By
Rick Pullen
| January 7, 2021
Hollywoodland: The Best Neo-Noir You Probably Haven't Seen
Fifty years later, the investigation into the mysterious death of actor George Reeves, TV's Superman, still resonates.
By
Sabina Stent
| January 7, 2021
Irving "Gangi" Cohen: The Man Who Escaped Murder, Inc. and Hid Out in the Movies
Nobody saw Cohen back in Brooklyn. Until a few gangsters went to the movies and saw their old colleague on the silver screen.
By
Michael Cannell
| January 6, 2021
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