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    Drinking, Dancing, and Breaking the Law: Nightlife in the Jazz Age

    Upscale speakeasies, working class bars, and a thriving queer subculture were all parts of going out during Prohibition.

    June 8, 2023  By Katharine Schellman
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    Historical Research as Procedural

    "[H]istorical research can offer a crime writer their own experience of investigation."

    June 8, 2023  By Katharine Beutner
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    High Tech in Low Places: The Makings of the Tech Bro Villain

    Or, tech bros as (evil) magicians

    June 7, 2023  By James Byrne
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    10 Thrilling Novels featuring Horses 

    These books use the sensitive equines "to echo the qualities of their human counterparts."

    June 7, 2023  By Eliza Jane Brazier
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    Why Are We So Obsessed with Missing Persons Stories?

    On losing our beloveds, and writing what we fear.

    June 7, 2023  By Seraphina Nova Glass
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    How The Homes of My Past Continue To Haunt My Life

    "There it is—the familiar clink of a key in its lock. The scrape of metal on metal. A hot blast of air on my face."

    June 6, 2023  By Adorah Nworah
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    The New Classics of Southern Crime Fiction

    Southern Noir is on the rise, and Polly Stewart is rounding up some of her favorite books.

    June 6, 2023  By Polly Stewart
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    S.A. Cosby on Inspiration, Serial Killers, and How He Writes

    A conversation with the author of 'All the Sinners Bleed'

    June 6, 2023  By Nick Kolakowski
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    From Gritty Noir to Killer Quozies: Queer Crime Fiction Summer Reads

    Be Gay. Do Crimes. (And/or solve them?)

    June 5, 2023  By Queer Crime Writers 
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    Crime and the City: Panama City

    International intrigue (and crime fiction) around the Canal Zone.

    June 5, 2023  By Paul French
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