A forceful outing from Robert Galbraith — plus a Scilly Isles killer, Mike Ripley metafiction, newly translated Japanese classics and more ...

Before espionage fiction took over, there was a rather different dapper, sleuthing figure who captured the imagination of literary fiends across the globe. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has ...

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Sara Gran got hooked on mysteries early, especially the work of Donald J. Sobel, creator of “Two-Minute Mysteries” and the “Encyclopedia Brown” series. “Growing up, he meant so much to me,” says the ...

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A decade ago, the inaugural season of Serial debuted. The podcast, about the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and questions surrounding the arrest and conviction of her former boyfriend, Adnan Syed, drew ...

Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman When the hard-boiled ...