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William Shakespeare

Book Review: The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

By Doreen Sheridan

August 12, 2021

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye is a lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, where a neuro-atypical philosopher, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancé Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father. Fans of Shakespeare’s classic play…

Desert Island Books with Anna Downes

By Anna Downes

July 13, 2020

Ever since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. When I was a child, you couldn’t enter our house without catching snippets of Michael Parkinson or Sue Lawley chatting to Joanna Lumley, Eric Clapton, or Princess Michael of Kent about their most treasured pieces of music. As…

Book Review: Death by Shakespeare by Kathryn Harkup

By Angie Barry

May 5, 2020

When it comes to dramatic death scenes, few screenwriters have surpassed William Shakespeare. He raised that bar sky high four hundred years ago, with demises ranging from the realistically tragic (Ophelia’s drowning in Hamlet) to the action-packed (any of the stirring battles in his history plays), the downright bizarre (Antigonus’ legendary “exit, pursued by a…

The Mystery Endureth

By Emily Littlejohn

December 12, 2019

Though it has been over four hundred years since William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to inspire new generations of authors. There’s just something about the Bard, isn’t there? The tragic love of Romeo and Juliet, the darkness of King Lear’s psyche . . . Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets are rife with possibilities for retelling…

Q&A with Charles Finch, Author of The Vanishing Man

By Crime HQ

February 19, 2019

Criminal Element is thrilled to welcome author Charles Finch and his longtime editor (and the host of Case Closed, our new podcast series!) Charles Spicer. The two recently sat down to discuss Finch’s newest Charles Lenox mystery The Vanishing Man, Shakespearean London, England’s class system, and the what-ifs of time travel.  *** Charles Spicer: Did…

Creating the Perfect “Baddie”

By Leigh Russell

March 4, 2016

Are people ever truly “evil”? Many people commit evil acts, but are these a sign that the perpetrator is evil, or are their actions so far beyond what civilized people might consider “normal,” that we have to conclude these evildoers are insane? Can we hold the insane responsible for their actions? Are they “evil” or…

History as Mystery: Part II

By Jeannette de Beauvoir

February 11, 2016

Yesterday, in History as Mystery Part I, I explored why I love historical mysteries so much and offered 10 of my absolute favorites as sort of a crash course reading list to get you started. Now that you’re clearly convinced of how great these stories can be, it’s your turn to start exploring topics for…

Fresh Meat: The Dead Assassin by Vaughn Entwistle

By Katherine Tomlinson

June 7, 2015

The Dead Assassin by Vaughn Entwhistle is the 2nd book in the Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle where the author sets out to solve an ill-fated assassination (available June 9, 2015). I am a great fan of Barbara Hambly’s James Asher novels, urban fantasies of Victorian vampires that place the protagonist—a former spy—right in the…

Orson Welles at 100: Falstaff, or Chimes At Midnight (1965)

By Jake Hinkson

June 5, 2015

Falstaff might just be Orson Welles’s greatest film. Welles himself thought so, and many among his legion of devoted fans think so. That the film remains largely unseen in America has little bearing on this opinion. In his home country, Welles is still most closely associated with Citizen Kane and The Third Man, but among…

Now Win This!: The Deadly Medley Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

February 3, 2015

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