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In 1929, a Catholic priest walked into the detective fiction scene and handed out commandments—not from a mountaintop, but from a typewriter. His name was Ronald Knox, and while he spent his days ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Detective fiction is a creative sub-genre of crime and ...

Critics of crime fiction dismiss the genre as hopelessly reactionary, but its history tells a different story. From hard-boiled American detective novels to the explosion of Scandi-noir, crime fiction ...

The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s something properly thrilling about getting caught up in a well plotted, suspense-packed crime novel. From twisty whodunits ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman When the hard-boiled ...

Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole spoilers follow. Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole is a standard cop thriller in most of the ways you might ...

Wang, N.N. (2026) Woven for Unraveling’s Sake: The Reproductive Machine of Surplus Enjoyment in Poe’s Detective Tales. Open ...

The class was talking about Betty, who they originally thought was such a nice girl. “She just seemed so innocent …” said one student. “She’s not the one you’d expect to be a straight-up liar.” ...

First we read Nancy Drew, girl detective. Then what? Women of Mystery explores the writing lives of three authors (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton & Marcia Muller) who started a literary revolution and, in ...