THIS WEEK: In 1934, the Baker Street Irregulars held their first “formal meeting” at Christ Cella steakhouse on East 44th Street in New York City. (The group is pictured here at the 1947 annual dinner at the Murray Hill Hotel.)
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- The bizarre murder mystery that unfolded on Twitter, got the police’s attention, and had millions guessing whodunnit, and whether any of it was real. | BBC
- The co-creators of Crimetown and The Jinx have launched a new podcast on the assassination of RFK and new questions surrounding the investigation. | Radio Ink
- Julia Ioffe on the Brock Turner case and Michele Dauber, the Stanford Law professor who fights for abuse victims and for change to a broken system. | Highline
- 12 non-fiction books that show the truth about modern day mafias, from Alex Perry, the journalist who researched the women who took on ‘Ndrangheta. | CrimeReads
- Chris Feliciano Arnold on the private prisons hidden deep inside the Amazon and the rise of the Familia do Norte gang. | CrimeReads
- Prison-reporter John J. Lennon on the broken mental health care system, his own troubled past, and what psychiatric treatment of prisoners looks like behind the walls. | Esquire
- An infographic that tells you how to name your next big crime novel. Ours is: The Unknown Bloody Fedora, which sounds about right…. | CrimeReads
- Maria Hummel on the feminist rage, transcendant violence, and surprisingly accurate blood spatter of 17th century painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. |CrimeReads
- “Grifter season comes irregularly, but it comes often in America, which is built around mythologies of profit and reinvention and spectacular ascent.” Jia Tolentino on Anna Delvey the latest con artist craze. | The New Yorker
- 10 new books to feed your true crime addiction. From corruption in world soccer to the African-American detective who infiltrated the Klan. | CrimeReads
- Queer friendship and the psychological thriller: Tara Isabella Burton on desire, identity and violence in classic thrillers from Highsmith and Du Maurier. |CrimeReads
- Take a stroll around Paris with Cara Black and her Paris mysteries. | Jungle Red
- Did Dostoevsky predict the true crime obsession? Jennifer Wilson looks at today’s crime culture and the Russian author’s obsession with guilt. | The New York Times
- How The Staircase, a documentary series decades in the making, finally came to American audiences, and in the meantime helped to invent the true crime TV craze. |The Guardian
- People from Lagos call themselves Omo-Eko, children of Eko. It is a beautiful, chaotic, glorious, resplendent, mess of a city.” Chris Abani on noir in Africa’s largest city. | CrimeReads
- 10 literary novels that break down genre barriers and offer a master class in suspense, from Debra Jo Immergut. |CrimeReads
- From the People’s Temple to the Manson Family to the Branch Davidians, cults always fascinate, and there are a lot of good books out there to prove it. | The Strategist
- Kristen Lepionka on queerness in crime fiction, and how queer characters went from stereotypes and sidekicks to fully-realized protagonists. | CrimeReads
- J. Kingston Pierce on the long, and sometimes strange history of U.S. Presidents in crime fiction. Take a look at 23 classics of this very particular sub-genre. | CrimeReads
- A Chinese crime fiction phenomenon comes to the States. Zhou Haohui’s police thrillers are responsible for millions in sales and billions of streaming views in China. How will his high-octane stories translate to the English world? | The New York Times
