• History of Mystery

    Crime Fiction in San Francisco: From Barbary Coast to Tech Noir

    The City by the Bay has a literary tradition like no other.

    July 19, 2021  By Paul French
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    The Needle and the Damage Done: The Genius of Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers

    Stone's tale of heroin, smugglers, and moral striving remains one of the most relevant American crime novels ever written.

    July 16, 2021  By Bruce Riordan
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    For One Writer, Rediscovering the Novels of Dick Francis Was the Answer to a Personal Crisis and a Mysterious Illness

    John Fram was at work on his second novel when a strange illness knocked him down. A chance encounter with some wildly popular horse racing mysteries helped get him right. But how?

    July 15, 2021  By John Fram
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    In 1970s America, Bizarre TV Movie Thrillers Were All the Rage

    Terror, horror and noir: they came from the small screen...

    July 12, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Reimagined Mosquito Coast Is a Hitchcockian Chase Thriller With a Social Critique

    The new Apple TV+ series takes on American exceptionalism but delivers it with a stylish story about a family pursued.

    July 9, 2021  By Harrison Blackman
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    Amnesia in Literature and Film

    Unreliable narrators and mysteries of memory ratchet up the suspense in remarkable ways.

    July 9, 2021  By Liv Constantine
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    The Case of Perry Mason’s Courtroom Cousin

    In 1936, Erle Stanley Gardner was thinking of killing off his most famous character. Instead, he created a new kind of lawyer.

    July 2, 2021  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    Adam Diment Was a Swinging 60s Icon and the Prince of British Spy Fiction—Until He Disappeared

    Diment's sexed up spy novels were all the rage in 60s London. Then one day, he was gone.

    July 2, 2021  By Luke Poling
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    Five Great Movies Based on Patricia Highsmith Books (That Aren't the Ripley Adaptations)

    New wave cinema is full of interesting Highsmith adaptations you may have missed.

    July 1, 2021  By Tanner Tafelski
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    A Quiet Hero: Why George Smiley Is and Always Has Been the Protagonist We Need

    "...a play in which the hero kept silent and everyone round him spoke incessantly"

    July 1, 2021  By Neil Sharpson
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