THIS WEEK: In 1976, All the President’s Men premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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- How the famed Pinkerton detectives are setting themselves up to thrive and profit in the upcoming era of climate chaos. | The New York Times Magazine
- The Killer Women collective and J.K. Rowling are launching a new mentoring program for women writers from under-represented backgrounds breaking into the crime fiction world. | The Guardian
- Lee Child is developing a true crime series about people who, like Jack Reacher, “have been driven to stand up and put their lives on the line, fighting for justice in the face of great danger.” | The Hollywood Reporter
- Nathan Ward remembers David Fechheimer, the legendary private detective who dug up the goods on his hero, Dashiell Hammett. | Medium
- Rachel Howzell Hall on the power of “unlikeable” women in crime fiction. | Criminal Element
- Photographing the dead: Kris Waldherr on the life cycle of mourning and what we can learn from Victorian death rituals. | CrimeReads
- Leye Adenle talks Nigerian crime fiction, modern life in Lagos, and humor—our “favorite drug to numb the soul.” | CrimeReads
- CrimeReads’ Molly Odintz assembles the best historical fiction of 2019 (so far), with an era and a crime-solving style for everyone. | CrimeReads
- Michael Gonzales on falling in love with horror, and on the wide-open world of 1970s comics that let a 14 year-old in New York get a job interview at DC Comics. | CrimeReads
- In Jacobean tragedies, women were blamed for the collapse of moral order. Elizabeth Fremantle on the crimes, cover-ups and corruption that defined the era. | CrimeReads
- “The dark side in a suburban everyman is irresistible to me.” Lisa Scottoline on secrets, suburbs, and justice as a consolation prize. | CrimeReads
- In honor of 70 years of Lew Archer, J. Kingston Pierce tells the history of a noir classic in 25 book covers gathered from around the world. | CrimeReads
- Oscar de Murial on the thin line between science, quackery, and folklore in the Victorian era. | CrimeReads
- The many death-defying missions of WWII’s legendary spy, Virginia Hall, an American heiress with a famous gait. | CrimeReads
- Nina Revoyr talks power, privilege, and the contradictions of the new/old Los Angeles elite, with Steph Cha. | CrimeReads
- Ryan Steck, aka The Real Book Spy, rounds up the best and biggest thrillers coming out this April. | CrimeReads
- Uncovering the truth in apocalyptic fiction: Hanna Jameson reconsiders classic novels as dystopian masterpieces. | CrimeReads
- Rebecca Rego Barry gives us a brief history of “Newgate Novels,” a sensational genre of fiction based upon the real-life crimes of those imprisoned in Newgate. | CrimeReads
