crime
The Regency Mystery Arrives to the Ball
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Iโd wager a box of my favorite tea that youโve heard of Bridgerton by now. Maybe even that itโs that occasionally spicy period drama based upon author Julia Quinnโs…
Shakespeareโs First Folio has been Stolen Many, Many Times
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Late at night on July 13th, 1972, an unknown person entered the University of Manchesterโs Library and violently smashed the plate glass top of an exhibition case, stealing the…
The Many Poisons of Crime Fiction
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For all of recorded history, poisons have been a means of death, both deliberate and accidental. Greek philosophers, kings, emperors, actresses, scientists, mathematicians, and more were felled by lethal…
What To Read While Youโre Waiting for the Next Season of Yellowjackets
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How do you know someone just finished binging both seasons of Yellowjackets? A. They roam around in a daze grabbing random people and asking, โWho is pit girl? Who…
Elizabeth Hand on Playwriting, Haunted Houses, and Shirley Jackson
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This interview has been edited for clarity and concision. A Haunting on the Hill is now available from Mulholland Books. Olivia Rutigliano: Iโm so excited because this is the…
Love Behind Bars: On the Complicated World of Incarcerated Romance
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Of all the correspondents Iโve had in my life, Sam Israel has been among the most consistent. Sam was serving a twenty-two-year sentence in federal prison for fraud when…
The Best Locked Room Mystery Youโve Probably Never Heard Of
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From the very first sentenceโฆwe are into the realm of nightmare. Miracles gather and explode. A dead man returnsโor does not return. A flying ghost, apparently, swoops down and…