Preamble Crime Scenes By Lewis H. Lapham The American fondness for the dressing up of crime in the costumes of romance is an amusement priced at too high a cost. More
Essay From the Drawing Room to the Gutter By Charles Taylor Crime fiction affords its readers a way to acknowledge the world’s violence without either succumbing to despair or believing it can be made to go away. More
Voices In Time c. 228 | Naukratis Something Is Rotten in the Agora Athenaeus prefers a fish out of water.More
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. —Hannah Arendt, 1963
