THIS WEEK: In 1959, at the age of 70, Raymond Chandler dies having transformed crime fiction in the United States.
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- Erica Wright celebrates the transformative power of crime scene dioramas. | CrimeReads
- The Long Goodbye: 49 bizarre and beautiful visions of Raymond Chandler’s classic. | CrimeReads
- Otto Penzler remembers Philip Kerr, gone too soon, and the irrepressible joys of the Bernie Gunther series. | CrimeReads
- What happens when a person goes missing because they’ve lost their sense of self? | The New Yorker
- From Agatha Christie to Tana French, the 7 creepiest manor houses in mystery. | CrimeReads
- On the writer using thrillers and fairy tales as ways to explore misogyny. | The Walrus
- “Do all mothers fantasize about fleeing their families, if only for a weekend?” On the runaway mothers of fiction. | The Guardian
- Christine Mangan on the legacy of Patricia Highsmith, midcentury Morocco, and the intersection of gothic and mystery. | Crime by the Book
- Alex Segura on the subtle, menacing noirs of Laura Lippman. | CrimeReads
- 25 years later, the FBI agent who can’t stop thinking about Waco. | Texas Monthly
- The powerful female detectives of British TV, and what all crime and mystery writers can learn from them. | CrimeReads
- Looking for reads from the Antipodes? Here are 12 new authors to try from New Zealand. | Crime Fiction Lover
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