The Rap Sheet, True Crime and White Collar Wire
We are honored to be added as a “True Crime” blog by The Rap Sheet, one of the world’s leading crime-fiction blogs: Since it spun off...
A Poem Fit For White-Collar Crime: In the City of Night
A poem, In the City of Night, by John Gould Fletcher, that’s fit for white-collar crime: In the City of Night by John Gould Fletcher...
Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction
Pop culture and theology mix fruitfully in pulp-crime fiction. Here’s a four-part course from 2012: Red Harvest: Crime Fiction and Gospel Conviction . Here’s the blurb...
Criminals In Ties: Contract Law and Reservoir Dogs
The interplay between law — especially criminal law — and theology is more subterranean and nuanced than many give it credit for. The same is...
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and the Cocktails That Go With It
We avoid sentimentality, but the culture is awash in it on Valentine’s Day. This “holiday” is not traditionally associated with business crime, but we will...
John D. MacDonald and King Saul
We worked John D. MacDonald’s private eye, Travis McGee, into this discussion of King Saul and the young David: Spare the King and Seize the...
George V. Higgins and the Archeology of White-Collar Crime
In popular culture, business-crime is presented cartoon-fashion. In movies, on television or in novels, businesspeople who are corporate targets of government investigations come across as...
Why’d He Do It?
Here’s a note from Professor Ellen Podgor about an article on Sentencing the Why of White Collar Crime by Todd Haugh (Illinois Institute of Technology...
Browning: “the poet, not the automatic”
Does reading literary fiction really increase your social intelligence? Here: I Know How You’re Feeling, I Read Chekhov Maybe. But what about crime fiction? ...
Crime and T.S. Eliot
Today (September 26th) is the birthday of American-born (but eventually British-subject) poet T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). He wrote little about crime except Murder in the Cathedral...