THIS WEEK: In 1905, the city of Las Vegas was founded. Casinos, divorce, and organized crime would be another 25 years coming, but boy, when they did show up, they sure knew how to make an entrance.
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- The life of Edward Rulloff: academic by day, criminal by night, and the most notorious brain in the annals of crime. |CrimeReads
- An up-close look at the life of Jose Martinez, aka El Mano Negra, a cartel hitman and one of America’s most prolific killers. | Buzzfeed
- The spy novelist who disappeared off the coast of Morocco, never to be seen again. Sarah Weinman on the life and death of Holly Roth. | CrimeReads
- A vicious attack, and a story that refused to become a thriller. | CrimeReads
- Going outside your genre comfort zone and becoming a better reader. | Lit Hub
- Lessons learned immersed in the world and history of spy fiction. | N+1
- Attica Locke will develop a TV series for FX based her Edgar Award-winning crime novel, Bluebird, Bluebird. | Deadline
- Jessica Knoll on shifting the power dynamics in the thriller industry, and how books about women’s experience are books for everyone. | EW
- The latest revelation from the JFK Files: the name of an editor-spy who hung around postwar Paris with James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Chester Himes. | Newsweek
- Winnie M. Li and Mimi Wong discuss an Asian American #MeToo moment, and finding catharsis in crime writing after an assault. | CrimeReads
- Post Vietnam War Noir: 8 crime novels that explore the turbulent aftermath of a collective trauma. | CrimeReads
- The Drowning of Holly Roth: Sarah Weinman looks at the life, work, and mysterious death of a forgotten spy novelist. | CrimeReads
- How crime king Elmore Leonard cut his teeth and found his voice writing gritty westerns. From Nathan Ward. |CrimeReads
- Supernatural Crime: specters and the unknown in mystery novels. | CrimeReads
- The Miami prosecutor who spent decades going after the world’s most notorious drug traffickers (and got his start working for George V. Higgins). | Miami Herald
- Owen Laukkanen on a vast underworld of crime on the high seas. | CrimeReads
- The Big Sleep Test: a rare book dealer’s love-hate relationship with Chandler and his booksellers. | CrimeReads
- Can crowd-sourced forensics help break open the case of the death of a Venezuelan rebel? | New York Times
- A look at the best international crime fiction coming to the U.S. this month. |CrimeReads
- A memoir, a confession, and a new identity for D.B. Cooper. | The Washington Post
- A musician’s secrets for writing a lyrical, rhythmic crime novel. | CrimeReads
- New charges against the Golden State Killer suspect bring the death toll to twelve, all known cases linked to the notorious serial killer. | Los Angeles Times
- Launching a new publisher dedicated to Golden Age mystery. | Publishers Weekly
- Spycraft in the secretary pool: life at MI-5 during the Swinging Sixties. | CrimeReads
- After the Nanny Trial, a dark scene, and a sentence of life in prison. | New York Mag
- Inside New York City’s infamous 19th century island workhouses. | CrimeReads
- The Mumbai cop who became the city’s most prolific crime chronicler.| Scroll.in
- Talking crime fiction, music, and Archie comics with Alex Segura. | Syfy Wire
- Behind the scenes of a Florida true crime investigation. | CrimeReads
