For more than a century, detective fiction has captivated readers from worldwide with its intricate puzzles, thrilling chases ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...

This year’s best crime fiction runs a global gamut in settings from New York to Dublin, London to Los Angeles, Geneva to Edinburgh. There’s a metafictional murder mystery, a psychological ...

This week’s literary geography quiz highlights international detective characters cracking ... Mining Her Country’s Nightmares: In her fiction, Han Kang has probed at the seams of South ...