• Noir/Hardboiled

    January's Best International Crime Fiction

    Fashionistas in Ghana, old soldiers in Italy, and medical malfeasance in Denmark

    January 29, 2021  By Molly Odintz
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    It Takes a Village To Keep a Book In Print: A Chat with the Collins Crime Club

    Publishing director David Brawn on the first African-American detective novel and a new golden age of reissued classics.

    January 29, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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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"

    January 27, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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    Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices: When Characters Face Existential Dilemmas

    A look at five films where morality is supplanted by need

    January 27, 2021  By Thomas H. Carry
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    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.

    January 22, 2021  By Neil Nyren
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    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.

    January 22, 2021  By Peter Handel
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    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.

    January 20, 2021  By Paula Hawkins
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    Poison in the Ear: Why Iago Is the Ultimate Thriller Character

    Shakespeare's villain, in all his treachery and complexity, still resonates, centuries later.

    January 20, 2021  By Chris Harding Thornton
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    Patricia Highsmith and the Women Who Inspired Ripley

    In 1950, Highsmith went to Positano with a glamorous, wealthy young Londoner. A year later, she traveled there again, with a new companion, at the tail end of a manic journey across Europe.

    January 19, 2021  By Richard Bradford
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    What the Iconic Outfits in Laura Say About Feminism, Fashion, and Film Noir

    A well-dressed Gene Tierney isn't a screen siren—she's a businesswoman, projecting confidence and power.

    January 13, 2021  By Kimberley Truhler
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