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...
W.H. Auden: “Detective Story”
From W.H. Auden (1907-1973), a poem about crime (fictional and real): Detective Story by W.H. Auden For who is ever quite without his landscape, The...
Crime Fiction: The Sunday New York Times Book Review
This weekend’s crime-fiction review here — NYT Crime Fiction — from Marilyn Stasio and the New York Times....
Janet Maslin on Elmore Leonard
A tribute to Elmore Leonard, from Janet Maslin, here — Elmore Leonard – A Man of Few, Yet Perfect, Words “His characters, as ever, were...
Elmore Leonard Dies in Detroit
Elmore Leonard was perhaps the best post-war American crime novelist: Elmore Leonard Dies in Detroit. His style — tight, auricular, clean, dead-on dialogue — has left...
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This is a blog about business crime. We post stories about news, cases, judicial opinions, practical tips and scholarly work regarding white-collar criminal and civil...