Pandemic from the Janitor’s Point of View
Timothy Sheard's murder mystery One Foot in the Grave explores pandemic in a hospital from the point of view of the lowliest, aka "essential", staff.
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Murder Mystery ‘The Woman in the Window’ Teaches a Masterclass in the Unreliable Narrator
A.J. Finn's The Woman In the Window is clearly a love letter to the genre and an homage to the classics.
David Mamet in the Age of Prohibition
With his first novel in nearly 20 years, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright tackles Chicago gangsters in the roaring '20s, with mostly successful results.
The Moving Pixels Podcast Executes ‘The Deed’
By playing The Deed, we find ourselves in the uncomfortable position of inhabiting the mind of a murderer.
I Just Murdered My Sister, and It Was Kind of Fun
The Deed makes murder a game, a pretty fun game.
Murder for Two: Oedipal Death-Cycles in ‘The Eye of the Beholder’
Behm turns the detective novel first on its head and then sideways before shot-putting it across a terrain of Żuławskian terror; its film adaptation is an equally nerve-wracking descent into oedipal destruction.
Perilous Discoveries: The Feminist Murder-Mysteries of Charlotte Armstrong
Armstrong's women opened the same forbidden doors as Agatha Christie and Patricia Wentworth's, but her characters also opened those doors for other, more pressing, reasons.