THIS WEEK: In 1935, Anna Katharine Green died. Her novel The Leavenworth Case (1878) helped popularize the detective novel and sold over 750,000 copies. Hence the throne.
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- Julia Dahl spotlights 10 books about miscarriages of justice, from The Count of Monte Cristo to The Central Park 5. | The Guardian
- It’s time to add David Peace and his Red Riding Quartet to the ranks of James Ellroy and Don Winslow. | CrimeReads
- How the Bryson Apartment Hotel slid into elegant decay and became an enduring symbol of LA Noir. | Curbed Los Angeles
- Megan Abbott and Alison Gaylin discuss 70s thrillers, the stigma of sex work, and their gritty comic series, Normandy Gold. | Book Riot
- The dime store novels and movie that transformed Wyatt Earp from a lawman into a legend. | CrimeReads
- When classic detective novels got a pulp makeover. | CrimeReads
- Read about the five books this Hong Kong crime writer would take to a desert island. | South China Morning Post
- Piper Weiss on her close encounter with a predator and a lifetime of obsessions. | CrimeReads
- An extra-creepy excerpt from a new account of Belle Gunness, serial murderer of husbands in 19th-century America. | Crime by the Book
- Eva Dolan puts women activists front and center, and uses crimefiction as a trojan horse for “some pretty contentious politics.” | CrimeReads
- Leila Slimani talks about motherhood, class, gender, and American reception for her shocking new thriller. | The Cut
- In Tehran, writing noir is a political act. |CrimeReads
- The missing booksellers of Hong Kong, source of “unofficial” literature to mainland China. | The New York Times Magazine
- Mat Johnson on why all fiction is crime fiction. | Literary Hub
- Crime fiction legend Otto Penzler on “the most evil story ever published,” our modern anaesthetized taste, and the difference between rogues and villains. | The Houston Chronicle
- “The cat sat on the mat is not a story; the cat sat on the dog’s mat is the beginning of an exciting story.” Writing advice from John le Carré and other mystery greats. | CrimeReads
