Noir & Crime Digest

The All-Story Magazine, launched in 1905 by Frank Munsey, shifted from monthly to weekly publication before merging with The Cavalier in 1914 and...

New to Lehane? Start with Mystic River for standalone noir or A Drink Before the War for the Kenzie-Gennaro series.

• Kenzie-Gennaro must follow...

Will Murray turned deep fandom into lasting preservation, editing Duende, authoring the definitive Shadow history, and unearthing the outline that...

StudioCanal and Eureka are leading a wave of curated 4K releases that expand access to classic crime and noir titles.

• StudioCanal Classics launches...

Wildside Press keeps pulp culture alive by reprinting key journal articles in volumes like The Archie Goodwin Files, offering fans direct access to classic discussions and hidden gems from the genre's past.

Directorial craft—not stars or plots—turns these crime films into enduring classics.

• Rififi: Jules Dassin's near-silent 30-minute heist defines...

Red Harvest gets judged by modern standards in this contrarian take: a convoluted mess of repetitive killings and indistinguishable characters that...

C-Man offers a hidden-gem rediscovery in classic Hollywood espionage noir, tracking a customs agent as he shadows jewel thieves to Europe and back...

BritBox's Hercule modernizes Christie by framing Poirot's formative years and early bonds with Hastings and Japp, launching with the classic Lord Edgware Dies under a fresh actor.

The Whisper Man lands in critic limbo with a 41% Rotten Tomatoes score after 29 reviews, reflecting its middle-of-the-pack status among De Niro's...

The Killers (1946) launched Burt Lancaster overnight and established Ava Gardner as the definitive femme fatale, her black satin gown and smoldering...

Psychiatrist Sam Rice refuses police info on his murdered patient, then falls for the victim's mistress and chief suspect while solving the case amid threats to himself.

New Beverly Cinema stages a 35mm double feature that stages a direct conversation between Friedkin’s tactile 1980s neo-noir To Live and Die in L.A....

Buds Art Books’ Pulp Reference section gathers 38 titles focused on historical overviews, biographies, market data, and cover art collections.

• True...

Classic mystery authors reveal sharp divides in planning that directly shape suspense and structure.

• Agatha Christie meticulously mapped murders,...

Women crime writers stretch genre bounds by flipping the focus from murder to emotional journeys of identity and trauma.

• Primary pole: Layla...

Noir City Philadelphia 2026 explores musicians, performance, celebrity, and corruption through nine classic films at Ambler Theater November 13-15....

Does updating Christie's lesser-known duo for today's London risk losing the playful partnership that defined their 1922 debut?

• Core dynamic...

This week brings three thriller arrivals worth checking, led by a new crime mystery built for noir fans.

• The Whisper Man drops August 28: De Niro...

Michael Mann's Miami Vice deliberately deploys 2006-era tech—BlackBerrys, flip phones, HD digital cameras—and urban systems to create a blistering...