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Eyewitness: Chicks Dig the Car 1 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
Is the dearth of quality private eye shows on television linked to a lack of truly cool PI cars?
Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much? 24 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
Back in the 1920s there was an oft-repeated joke about the British thriller writer Edgar Wallace. A friend was said to have telephoned him one day, only to be told that Wallace was writing a new novel...
Why Can’t They Get Irene Adler Right? 18 Jul 2013 | 10:36 pm
That’s the topic of many blogs appearing since three recent major reboots of Sherlock Holmes that also feature the woman—the only woman to outwit him.
Murder She Taught: The Puzzling Career of Hildegarde Withers 10 Jul 2013 | 01:21 am
Read today, The Penguin Pool Murder is not only a fascinating snapshot of New York City immediately after the 1929 stock market crash, it is a remarkable document of an author’s on-the-job training.
My Life of Crime Fiction 1 Jul 2013 | 05:36 pm
Forty years of crime fiction scholarship: Al Hubin, founder of The Armchair Detective
The Magnificent Brain of Alvin Fernald, Clifford B. Hicks' Charming Kid Crime-Solver 11 Jun 2013 | 07:42 pm
“What my mind can conceive, I can achieve." —Alvin Fernald’s motto
Eyewitness: Beautiful Losers 6 Jun 2013 | 10:04 pm
A slap in the face to notions of what film noir is supposed to be.
Across the Great Divide: K.C. Constantine Takes the Detective Novel Into Uncharted Territory 30 May 2013 | 03:19 am
Until he revealed his true identity in 2011, K.C. Constantine was something of an enigma to the publishing world. But whether under his own name—Carl Kosak—or a pseudonym, the Mario Balzic mysteries h...
Robert B. Parker: “A Code and a Quest” 21 May 2013 | 06:09 pm
He respected the genre, which is to say he respected us.
Jonny Quest: Drawn to Adventure 15 May 2013 | 02:30 am
Jonny Quest redirected the course of popular cartooning. It paved the way for every action, sci-fi, and mystery cartoon series that followed. And it was one of the coolest things on the tube.
