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  • The Many Ways to Be a Scoundrel in Early America

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    In the summer of 1787, as the Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia, General James Wilkinson journeyed to New Orleans to visit Spanish Governor Esteban Mirรณ, ostensibly about obtaining…

  • Sinking Into the Gothic Gloom: My Favourite Worksย 

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    Iโ€™ve always struggled with some of the prevailing definitions of โ€˜gothicโ€™ fiction. Tradition dictates there should be elements of fear, threat, woe, that hauntings should occur and vile things…

  • The Mystery of Real Estate Porn

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    Itโ€™s a game in New York and we all play. Everyone talks real estate, how the condo marketโ€™s soft, how the rental marketโ€™s skyrocketing, how Manhattanโ€™s suddenly affordable but…

  • 10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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    Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Stephen Spotswood, Murder Crossed Her Mind (Doubleday) โ€œFaithful column readers know how much I adore…

  • Crime and the City: Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight

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    Portsmouth โ€“ known to the locals as โ€œPompeyโ€ โ€“ is, and has been for centuries, Englandโ€™s largest Royal Navy base, 75 miles south of London in the country of…

  • The Mysterious Mr. Badman Is A Masterpiece of Macabre Humor

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    The Mysterious Mr. Badman is a long-forgotten but entertaining crime novel, its light-heartedness all the more unexpected given the authorโ€™s reputation as a master of the macabre. The teasing…

  • Troubled Teens in Crime Fiction

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    Teenagers donโ€™t have it easy. On top of navigating a microculture rife with veiled rules and unspoken expectationsโ€”also known as high schoolโ€”they often get a bad rap. Adults tend…

  • Getting Ready to Say Goodbye to Fargo

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    This November, FX released the fifth and possibly final season of the popular anthology series Fargo. Based on the 1996 film by Joel and Ethan Coen, and set in…

  • Tis the Season to be (Fictionally) Murdered

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    Iโ€™ve never been one for a beach read at the beach. Recently in Ventura and Monterey, I read a New-Jersey-set legal thriller (Robyn Giglโ€™s Survivor Guilt), a desert-set horror…

  • All the (Crime) Worldโ€™s a Stage: The Irresistible Pairing of Mysteries and the Theater

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    Crime writers utilize an extraordinarily wide range of back-grounds for their stories, but the stage is one of the most popular of them all. Stories set inโ€”or connected withโ€”the…


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