CrimeReads Brief: Week of August 26, 2018

THIS WEEK: In 1962, French President Charles De Gaulle survived an assassination attempt. The events inspired the thriller The Day of the Jackal.

• • Ann Arbor’s beloved mystery bookstore, Aunt Agatha’s, is closing up shop. Its founders reflect on 25 years in the business, and why it’s coming to end. | All About Ann Arbor
  • After 25 years of writing together, the couple that is collectively known as Nicci French interview other collaborative writers to discover the secret to writing books together. | The Guardian
  • A look at the many lives (on screen) of Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy’s legendary hero, who would rather be sitting behind a desk but keeps getting caught up in fire fights. |The New York Times
  • “Crime and the City” visits Oslo, a peaceful, prosperous, and expensive city where the Nordic Noir boom is in full effect and Jo Nesbø is ubiquitous. |CrimeReads
  • The night Gertrude Stein met Dashiell Hammett. Nathan Ward on the modernist icon’s love of detective fiction and the one very specific question she had for the noir master. | CrimeReads
  • 50 years after, the Canadian bank robber known as the Champagne Kid returns to a bank he once robbed, this time, just for a toast.  | The New York Times
  • Las Vegas diet clinics, international money laundering, and a bungled FBI sting appropriately named “Operation Botox.” | The Intercept
  • April Snellings on the rise and spectacular fall of midcentury crime comics, and how a once booming industry nearly self-censored itself into oblivion.  | Crimereads
  • Rea Frey asks thriller authors to choose the most memorable “mother villains” in literature, and the results are about as disturbing as you’d expect. | CrimeReads
  • Where the Western meets Crime Fiction: John Larison on 9 novels that bring together two of the great genres in American literature. | CrimeReads
  • Lea Carpenter on gun ranges, egos, and being told that spy fiction is off limits to women. | CrimeReads
  • A serial killer, a kidnapping ring, and decades of trauma. Author and private investigator J. Reuben Appelman is still searching for answers about the Oakland County Child Killer. | CrimeReads

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