THIS WEEK: In 1941, the great Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine sent out its first issue.
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- How much access (if any) should police have to genetic databanks? The debate over forensic genealogy continues. | The Atlantic
- A look at all the best Sherlock Holmes graphic novels you could be reading right now. | Mystery Tribune
- Perhaps it is an act of folly to attempt to select the best true crime podcasts ever, when crime podcasts have been around for less than 10 years, but we applaud this effort to do just that. | Vulture
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It’s the start of October, and CrimeReads staffers are spotlighting the very best new crime novels, mysteries, and thrillers coming out this month. | CrimeReads
- On Mary Shelley, Ada Lovelace, Jane Austen, and other strong-willed women from the early 19th century who defied conventions and helped create modernity. | CrimeReads
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“I had a revelation: the private eye in noir fiction was a perfect metaphor for how gay men navigated the ‘normal’ world where both were outsiders.” Michael Nava reflects on the early days of queer crime fiction. | CrimeReads
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Tara Laskowski on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, grief, and learning to live with longing. | CrimeReads
- Shaun Hammill wrestles with the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft and what it means to be inspired by other writers and their work. | CrimeReads
- For those who like to judge a book by its cover, we’re rounding up the best new jacket designs in crime, mystery, and thrillers. | CrimeReads
- Hog noir, Scooby Doo’s 50th anniversary, and a $3 million Las Vegas heist: take a look at our favorite CrimeReads stories for the month of September. | CrimeReads
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“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses the moment of experience from which to look back or from which, to look ahead.” Celebrating Graham Greene’s best opening paragraphs.| CrimeReads
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“Ordinary men, I had discovered, could be the most dangerous of all.” Rene Denfeld on her narrow escape from the Green River Killer.| CrimeReads
- “She was the grande dame of American crime fiction, at the height of her powers, when she fell into a murder mystery of her own.” Sarah Weinman on Mary Roberts Rinehart. | CrimeReads
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“Every age has its own set of fears.” Stephen Chbosky talks horror, creativity, and imaginary friends.| CrimeReads
- “There is a crime, or, rather, something that is called a crime.” Peter Steiner makes the case for Kafka as crime writer. | CrimeReads
- Author Peter Colt takes a crime fiction road trip from Boston to Cape Cod and back again with classics of the genre. | CrimeReads
- Bradley Harper guides us through the logic of forensics, and takes a brief dive into the 3000 year history of examining the dead to learn how they got that way. | CrimeReads
