Noir & Crime Digest

Four contemporary crime novels stand out as excellent choices for readers seeking unforgettable twists: A Time For Mercy, The Whistler, First Wife's Shadow, and The Impossible Fortune.

Otto Preminger's Laura endures as a noir landmark through its tangled production, sharp performances, and layered mystery rather than rankings.

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Barzun and Taylor's alphabetical survey reveals sharp surprises in the G–I authors.

• Carlo Emilio Gadda's That Awful Mess on Via Merculana draws...

Mulholland Drive marks its 25th anniversary today as David Lynch's surreal neo-noir, frequently cited by critics as the greatest film of the 21st century.

Crime fiction perfected modern plotting through ruthless reader feedback, yet literary snobbery endures despite its global dominance.

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The Deputy lands on Blu-ray November 17 as a hidden-gem neo-noir, adapting Victor Gischler's dark humor crime novel into a gritty tale of small-town...

Adrian Van Young's extreme metal and hardcore punk upbringing in 1990s San Diego exposed him to both social justice causes and crime's shadow side.

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Satan Met a Lady turns The Maltese Falcon into screwball farce, swapping the falcon for a diamond-filled ivory horn, Sam Spade for Warren William's...

Ukrainians facing relentless missile strikes and air sirens are flocking to true crime videos for their clear timelines and captured perpetrators,...

Back from the dead, Holmes gripes about dull cases now Moriarty’s gone, revealing a restless hunger for real challenges. When the Norwood case lands,...

Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene with Devil in a Blue Dress, the first novel to feature iconic character Easy Rawlins in modern hard-boiled detective fiction.

The decade's top crime films mix classic heist and pursuit tropes with fresh ethical dilemmas.

• The Town (2010) delivers a Fenway heist undercut by...

• Patrick Radden Keefe returns with London Falling, a grimly absorbing account of London's criminal underworld and a teen's fatal fall from an...

In Fallen Angel, an opportunistic drifter's romantic triangle in a quiet California town quickly turns deadly, exposing the hidden ambitions and social tensions beneath its ordinary facade.

Brad Bird's Ray Gunn fuses hard-boiled detective fiction, retro 1940s/50s aesthetics, and sci-fi in an animated neo-noir mystery, earning praise for...

• Flawed investigators and deliberate pacing define these character-driven classics, unlike today's fast procedurals
• Rumpole, Bergerac, Taggart,...

Nicolas Cage's refusal to sign Amazon's AI waiver for Spider-Noir positions the canceled series as a flashpoint in the fight over authorship and...

Last Man Standing (1996) and The Last Boy Scout (1991) emerge as Bruce Willis's most underappreciated crime entries, rated 7/10 Western Noir and 7.5/10 Real Bastard Detective.

Brad Bird's Ray Gunn succeeds in blending hard-boiled detective tropes with retro-futuristic world-building and expressive animation that echoes his...

Pulp collectors hunting hidden gems should dive into Enric’s review of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.’s new edition of The Monster Men. Picked up late...