From '90s classics like L.A. Confidential to foundational works like The Maltese Falcon, these are the all-time greatest hard ...

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Gone Girl, Shutter Island, The Maltese Falcon, and more make up our list of the best mystery books that are packed with plot ...

From the famous Sherlock Holmes crime story The Hound of Baskervilles to The Maltese Falcon, these classic mystery books are ...

Vanessa Braganza is a student at Columbia Law School and is the author of the forthcoming book “The Secret-Seekers: A Book Detective’s Quest to Decode the Renaissance.” Few genres are as universally ...

Forensics, archeology, genealogy, and genetics are devoted to figuring out what really happened. In this hour, we hear surprising stories of playing detective, and find that what really happened in ...

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Oni Press' Hobtown Mystery Stories series of graphic novels has developed a cult following in recent years, as these books essentially ask the question "What if Stranger Things were produced by A24?".

Murder mysteries are all about the conflict between order and chaos, between the rules of society and the violence that injects havoc into the system. Nowhere does the gap between social order and ...

Detective stories in DC Comics thrive on curiosity more than, well, capes and punches. The joy comes from watching heroes trade quick brawls for slow realizations, piecing together crimes in places ...