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Nedra Tyre: A Sweet Southern Lady’s Guide to Murder

The “southern lady”—in her upcoming essay collection, Helen Ellis defines that phrase as “a technique by which, if you don’t have something nice to say, you say something not so nice in a nice way.”...

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Laura Lippman: My 35-Year Love Affair with Marjorie Morningstar

It was only when Herman Wouk died this past May at the age of 103 that I learned how to pronounce the surname of a man who wrote one of my favorite books. It’s “woke” not “walk” and it is at once apt...

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The Strange Rural Noir of Wilma Dykeman’s The Tall Woman

Wilma Dykeman was not a crime novelist. Her most celebrated work, The Tall Woman (1962) does not appear on lists of “neglected mysteries” or “forgotten thrillers.” The book is not considered a “malice...

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