THIS WEEK: In 2003, the Feminist Press reissued the first in their series of classic pulp fiction by women, In A Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes.
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- Which Agatha Christie book will the Guardian’s book club pick to read next? You too can weigh in by putting your preferred Christie in the comments! | The Guardian
- We all at least think we know what blood spatter is, but what about “Locard’s Exchange Principle”? A list of vocabulary words, for the crime-reading crowd. | Mental Floss
- Rest in…well, something, Whitey Bulger. A look back at the notorious mobster’s crimes and the world that made him, in the wake of news of his demise. | The Line-Up
- Forget NaNoWriMo—you’ll be too busy reading this November to work on that manuscript, with new releases from Louise Penny, Liane Moriarty, Janet Evanovich, and more! | CrimeReads
- Whatever happened to Barbara Newhall Follett, former child prodigy author who disappeared in 1939? Sarah Meuleman investigates. | CrimeReads
- CrimeReads editor Dwyer Murphy rounds up the best in conspiracy fiction “born of the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s,” from James Ellroy to Gary Phillips.| CrimeReads
- “Minds did not imagine horrors but saw clearly the horribleness of their universe.” David Van Leer on the works of Edgar Allan Poe as psycho-thrillers. | CrimeReads
- The worst Boston accents in crime cinema, the art of the painstaking Sherlock recreation, and more: the CrimeReads editors pick their favorite stories of the month. | CrimeReads
- Take a tour of the shadowy world of horror crime crossovers with weird fiction-aficionado Max Booth III. Feat. Thomas Harris, Victor Lavalle, Lauren Beukes and many more. | CrimeReads
- Psychos, slashers, and serial killers: Film scholar Darryl Jones looks at the many modern visions of monstrosity. | CrimeReads
- “There is no end to the reasons people are labeled unlikable.” Lacey Johnson, author of the true crime memoir The Other Side, on likability and power, in fiction and in real life. | Tin House
- “In journalism it’s all about telling the truth. Same for fiction, even when we make it up.” Steven Cooper on why investigative reporters turn to writing crime fiction. | CrimeReads
- Paul French looks at the violent history, convulsive modern politics, and enviable setting of crime fiction in Barcelona. | CrimeReads
- Marilyn Stasio takes a break from recommending the best new crime fiction to bring us some chilling true crime picks, just in time for Halloween. | The New York Times
- From Gustav Doré’s The Raven to Aubrey Beardsley’s Murders in the Rue Morgue, a look at the illustrated Edgar Allan Poe. | CrimeReads
- “Horror can often be a very realistic way of expressing how the world feels.” Podcaster and novelist Joseph Fink talks horror, anxiety, and the road trip of life with Max Booth III. | CrimeReads
- “Child is exactly one inch shorter than Reacher.” And other facts you might now know about Lee Child and his series protagonist. | CBC
- “Reading…allows us to be someone else for a while without any of the danger. But how complicit does that make us?” Claire Fuller on voyeurism in crime fiction.| CrimeReads
