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Mystery
November 1, 2022
Critical Mass
Scott Bradfield
Agatha Christie Suspected Everyone
In the quaint, well-to-do worlds of her novels, anyone could be guilty. Murderers kill to beat the social order at its own game.
October 1, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Identity Is the Mystery in Tana French’s New Crime Novel
'The Witch Elm' uses traditional mystery devices to construct a gripping political narrative.
June 14, 2018
Sarah Weinman
Arthur Conan Doyle, True Detective
How the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories fought for—and ultimately turned against—a man wrongfully convicted
July 22, 1978
James Thomson
Murder with Honor
Raymond Chandler's detective stories deserve the name of art
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