In August 1889, a jury at the Liverpool Assizes convicted Florence Maybrick, a 26-year-old American, of murdering her husband James, a Liverpool cotton broker, …
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Miss Marple is back in a full-length novel for the first time since 1976. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, by Lucy Foley, came out this week from HarperCollins…
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The marriage looks fine from the outside. That's always the starting condition. Two people share a house, a bed, a surname on the mortgage — and then a receipt …
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A body is discovered in the first chapter. This is the oldest promise in crime fiction, so reliable it is almost a law: someone will be dead by the time you hav…
There is a reason the casino, the backroom card game and the racetrack recur so often in crime fiction that they have become almost a genre unto themselves. Fro…