Tag: detectives

By bringing new dimensions to an unjust process, a well-told story has the power to impact some of our most flawed systems.

One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.

The author talks with The Paris Review about writing, crime fiction, and his depiction of Black American life.

A reading list about fictional detectives and the authors who mastermind their literary crime-solving, as well as real-life detectives searching for the truth.

At BBC News, Jon Manel traces the final journey of an unnamed man, found dead in Saddleworth Moor in Northern England.

Sherlock Holmes feels uncannily contemporary these days — from his dizzying array of post-hipsterish quirks (Cocaine user! Virtuosic violin player! Exotic tobacco aficionado!) to a social aloofness that feels straight out of a Millennial INTP‘s playbook. (His knack for Twitter-ready aphorisms doesn’t hurt, either.) I’ve been rereading Conan Doyle’s stories for almost 20 years, and the guy has never felt more fresh.

The door opened. Two men in suits walked in. The man in front was a broad-shouldered, barrel-chested, thin-waisted, thick-haired fellow with deep-set, dark eyes and an icy glare. The precinct detective knew this man. He’d seen him around the precinct. It was hard to miss him. He looked, colleagues often said, how a detective in […]