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Teddy Roosevelt at the NYPD during the 1896 electionEstimated reading time: 5 minutes Revolutionaries have rarely risen to positions of power in the United States, but...
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What if Native Americans had built a nation?Estimated reading time: 5 minutes When Europeans first reached the Americas five centuries ago, mighty civilizations...
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A weapons contractor dies mysteriously in EgyptEstimated reading time: 4 minutes Cate Castle can’t understand how her brother died. He couldn’t possibly...
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War in space may be closer than you thinkEstimated reading time: 5 minutes A real war in space might already have broken out in the skies above Ukraine. In Low...
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The CIA and the Arab SpringEstimated reading time: 5 minutes Shane Collins is fifty-two and divorced, a heavy drinker two months into his last...
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Arkady Renko in Siberia: bears, billionaires, and deathEstimated reading time: 4 minutes When Martin Cruz Smith published the first of the Arkady Renko detective novels in...
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V. I. Warshawski finds the roots of a 21st-century crime in the Civil WarEstimated reading time: 4 minutes Sara Paretsky was a pioneer in portraying women in detective fiction as strong and...
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Who killed J. Edgar Hoover?Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Early in 1964 two aging men lie dead of gunshots in the back. They’re sprawled...
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The first in a new series of Ukraine mysteriesEstimated reading time: 5 minutes Kyiv, Ukraine, 1919. Everything is scarce in this city of half a million souls. Food....
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A missing woman, a murder, and a young PIEstimated reading time: 5 minutes Kwei Quartey is a practicing physician with the mind and eye of an anthropologist. In...
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Investigating a terrorist bombing in SingaporeEstimated reading time: 5 minutes Just imagine: three enormous bombs explode almost simultaneously, destroying the...
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This gripping crime novel shows China in transitionEstimated reading time: 5 minutes When Red Is Black paints a vivid picture of China in transition. Chief...
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Crime and corruption in Boris Yeltsin’s RussiaEstimated reading time: 6 minutes Over the three-decade period from 1981 to 2009, American crime novelist Stuart...
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The famous Harlem Detectives enter a comic sceneEstimated reading time: 5 minutes So, here’s Jackson, handing over a stack of money. “Hank was going to...
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King Henry VIII’s search for an ancient superweaponEstimated reading time: 5 minutes He describes himself as “a whey-faced hunchback lawyer in black robe and cap, a...
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Murder strikes a WWII Japanese American familyEstimated reading time: 4 minutes Aki Ito arrives in Chicago with her family in January 1944 expecting to find her...
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When Communism lost its grip on East GermanyEstimated reading time: 5 minutes On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, setting off a fast march to German...
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In a Chinese murder mystery, the legacy of the Cultural Revolution looms largeEstimated reading time: 6 minutes During the last ten years of his life (1966-76), Mao Zedong shut down China’s...
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A murder mystery spans Singapore and BangkokEstimated reading time: 6 minutes Inspector Samuel Tay has been with the Singapore police for nearly twenty years, much...
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High-level corruption explains this building collapseEstimated reading time: 5 minutes On June 29, 1995, the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea, suddenly...
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Murder in the shadow of India’s PartitionEstimated reading time: 5 minutes Bombay, 1950. Three years after Partition , when intercommunal violence set neighbor...
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A terrorist threatens a WWI British allianceEstimated reading time: 6 minutes A century ago, they called themselves anarchists. But we today would think of them as...
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A riveting tale of crime at the top in India todayCorruption rises to the top in India. Forty percent of sitting MPs in the Lok Sabha, India’s Parliament, have criminal records,...
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Southern noir at its eloquent bestBlood and tears. Violence and mayhem. Love and hate. These were the rocks upon which the South was built. They were the foundation upon...
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The first of the original police procedural seriesOn radio, then on television, we had Dragnet and a scattering of semi-documentary films such as The Naked City as well as a handful of...
