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A Difficult Woman
Historian Alice Kessler-Harris attempts an artistic, political, and moral portrait of a challenging subject: Lillian Hellman.
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Chapter & Verse
'Noir City' organizer Eddie Muller on the evolution of the genre he loves
'Czar of Noir' Eddie Muller talks about the hard-boiled crime fiction that inspired film noir.
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Chapter & Verse
Raising Cain: A new novel from a master of noir
How a posthumous novel by 'Mildred Pierce' author James M. Cain was discovered and released.
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Chapter & Verse
Mystery Magazine: At 70, Ellery Queen's publication still has a clue
The last couple of decades have been rough but editor Janet Hutchings says the Internet era is now boosting EQMM's profile and leading to a rebirth.
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Secret Agent Corrigan
Exotic locales, cool cars, beautiful women, and sinister villains abound in this collection of 1960s comics.
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Talking About Detective Fiction
Master mystery writer P.D. James dissects her craft.
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Spade and Archer
A prequel to ‘The Maltese Falcon’ tells how this unlikely duo came to be.
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Bamboo and Blood
A mystery novel offers a rare glimpse into life in North Korea.
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