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    Tis the Season to be (Fictionally) Murdered

    Catriona McPherson Chooses her Top Holiday Crime Novels

    December 1, 2023  By Catriona McPherson
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    All the (Crime) World's a Stage: The Irresistible Pairing of Mysteries and the Theater

    Martin Edwards on the beloved trope of murder against a theatrical backdrop, from Shakespearean maestros to community players

    December 1, 2023  By Martin Edwards
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    Parties Gone Wrong: A Beloved Trope in Crime Fiction

    "There’s not a gathering in thrillers that doesn’t end up in total and utter carnage"

    November 30, 2023  By Harriet Tyce
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    7 Great Cozy Mysteries Set in the Fall

    Autumn is the season for sweaters, changing leaves, and curling up with a good mystery.

    November 29, 2023  By Amber Camp
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    On The Rise, Fall, and Seemingly Inexplicable Appeal of Golden-Age Sleuth Philo Vance

    Leslie Klinger on a lesser-known work by S.S. Van Dine and what "The Canary Murder Case" says about its detective and creator

    November 29, 2023  By Leslie S. Klinger
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    Horror for the Holidays, Or, Scary Novels To Read While Being Nice to Your Family

    "[C]orruption of love and kindness is the real horror": so just eat your aunt's pie, okay?

    November 29, 2023  By Erika Johansen
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    The Orchestral Stirrings of Death on the Down Beat, a Musician's Murder Mystery

    On the well-known musician who brought something new to the world of Golden Age detective fiction, and his magnum opus.

    November 29, 2023  By Martin Edwards
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    "The Mousetrap": Still Going Strong After 28,000 Performances

    "[I]t does what theater is meant to do: engage our emotions, not just our little gray cells"

    November 28, 2023  By Maya Corrigan
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    Literary Fiction Can Be Murder

    Or, a list of mysteries in which bookish people must solve crimes at bookish events

    November 28, 2023  By V. M. Burns
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