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    Virginia Kellogg: The Forgotten Screenwriter Behind A String of Classic Noirs

    She wrote some of the greatest crime movies in Hollywood's Golden Age. Today, we know almost nothing about her.

    June 19, 2020  By Chris McGinley
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    Safe

    S.K. Barnett

    "Mom was at her real estate office and Dad was in the city being an executive producer."

    June 19, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    Perry Mason and the Case of the Wildly Successful, Perpetually Restless Author

    Erle Stanley Gardner had an idea for a lawyer who liked to brawl on behalf of the little guy. 170 million copies later, he had an icon.

    June 18, 2020  By Lee Randall
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    Are We Only Capable of Writing Liars?

    An author reflects on an attempt to write a truthful narrator.

    June 18, 2020  By Elizabeth Kay
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    "Night Poaching"

    Ha Seong-nan

    "The detective in charge of the investigation had turned over every last detail to me, so the town coming into view through the bus windshield didn’t seem all that unfamiliar."

    June 18, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    This Little Family

    Inès Bayard

    "The shrill bell on the intercom rings through the apartment."

    June 17, 2020  By CrimeReads Excerpts
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    8 Debut Novels You Should Read This June

    The month's best debuts in crime, mystery, and thrillers

    June 17, 2020  By CrimeReads 
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    Crime in a Tenured Position:
    The Feminist Mysteries of Carolyn Heilbrun

    As Amanda Cross, Carolyn Heilbrun used her Kate Fansler series to explore academia, politics, and modern womanhood.

    June 17, 2020  By Marlowe Benn
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    The Sufi Spy Who Fought The Fascists in Nazi-Occupied Paris

    Snapshot from History: Noor Inayat Khan, codename "Madeleine," arrives in France to join a resistance circle as a radio operator.

    June 17, 2020  By Arthur J. Magida
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    How the Flavia de Luce Series Investigates the Traditional English Village Murder Mystery

    On death, preservation, genius, detectives, villages, and eighteenth-century graveyard poems

    June 16, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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