THIS WEEK: In 1904, Grahame Greene was born.
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- “The flip side of being wealthy is crazy.” How Jim Hayes went from a $19 million lottery winner to a bank robber. | Daily Beast
- How a cartel dispute, an international manhunt, a carefully planned assassination, and a federal investigation penetrated a gated community in Texas. | Texas Monthly
- The government of Denmark believes it was swindled out of $2 billion by a shady financier and a rigged system. Now it wants to get its money back. | The New York Times
- Sarah Weinman on the other crime that inspired Nabokov in writing Lolita: the married couple, the brand new Chrysler, and the not-quite-perfect murder. | Longreads
- “As much as I enjoy the original canon, my favorite versions of Sherlock Holmes are all found in the pastiche.” Sherry Thomas rounds up her favorite takes on the iconic detective. | CrimeReads
- “Tey opened up the possibility of unconventional secrets.” Val McDermid on the mysteries of Josephine Tey, the dream of one last novel, and a collection from The Folio Society. | CrimeReads
- Laura Beil looks into the life and crimes of Christopher Duntsch, the subject of the new true crime podcast, Dr. Death. | ProPublica
- Rebecca Romney visits an immaculate recreation of 221B Baker Street in Pennsylvania and considers the enduring charms of Sherlock culture. | CrimeReads
- Molly Odintz takes a look at the 15 women crime writers—from Christie to Sayers—whose work has been brought to the big screen more than any others. | CrimeReads
- Read the David Grann story that captured the life of one of the country’s last legendary bank robbers and gave rise to the new Robert Redford film, The Old Man and the Gun. | The New Yorker
- S.L. Huang calls for more women characters “who are the center of the plot, who make things happen and spark conflict and who, in aggregate, create as many problems and dangers as they solve.” | CrimeReads
- Ben Macintyre on Oleg Gordievsky, the greatest spy you’ve never heard of, and how he prevented a devastating nuclear war. | CrimeReads
- “Why is it then that a lot of crime fiction avoids the borough like the plague?” Angel Luis Colón looks at why there aren’t more crime novels set in the Bronx. | CrimeReads
- “Crime fiction comes back to a very central question…Why do human beings keep doing terrible things to one another?” A conversation with mystery icon, Ian Rankin. | The Star
- Peter Stone rounds up 12 of the best thrillers featuring political scandals, from rigged elections to rogue submarines. | CrimeReads
- 9 new crime novels to read in October. CrimeReads editors choose their favorite from a month stacked with new books from icons and rising stars in the world of mystery. | CrimeReads
- A science writer takes on Megan Abbott’s latest thriller, set in a lab and exploring the pressures of academic competition. | Science Magazine
- The Birth of American Detective Fiction: Leslie S. Klinger on the unlikely crime solvers who launched a phenomenon and made way for the noir movement. | CrimeReads
- Karen Berger on publishing Anthony Bourdain’s final novel, and Bourdain’s lifelong passion for dark comics, “the bastard child of publishing.” | CrimeReads
- Dawn Ius looks at trends in the world of military thrillers, and how authors are keeping up with new technologies and new attitudes toward war. | The Big Thrill
- Crime novels make the best travel guides. Peter Gadol rounds up 7 books that take the reader on a journey and show “the city from another, often troubling perspective.” | CrimeReads
- At first, we thought it was a joke. Then we realized a TV show featuring a real-life forensic meteorologist examining weather crimes sounds pretty cool. | RealScreen
