The Strand Mystery Magazine: Publishes short stories and book reviews,...

When The Black Echo was published in 1992, it emerged without the usual fanfare that accompanies a major debut. Yet even before the novel quietly won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, crime-fiction critics sensed something different. Here was a writer...

by John Valeri Patricia Cornwell has been at the forefront of crime fiction’s pioneering authors since initiating the forensics boom with Postmortem in 1990. That book—the first to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix...

Interview with Peter James I met Peter James nearly twenty years ago at a convention in Madison, Wisconsin. What began as a brief introduction—by Will Balliett, who back then was the publisher of Carroll & Graf—turned into a seven-hour marathon of...

Unmasking Chandler: What “Nightmare” Reveals About the Writer Behind Marlowe by Tom Williams “Nightmare,” by Raymond Chandler, may not have the energy of his best fiction, but it remains a fascinating piece that sheds new light on his early career. It...