Explore historical mystery books—unraveling crime, intrigue, and hidden secrets in gripping stories set in the Baltimore’s early 20th-century past
These fifteen supernatural mystery books combine paranormal danger with genuine detective work: crimes to solve, clues to follow, and investigators trying to make sense of the impossible. 15 Books at a Glance Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot (Rivers of London) — PC Peter Grant investigates a murder with a ghostly witness and a dangerous revenant. Lauren…
The following is my review of Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History by Susanna Lee, as published in Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy in March 2023. Susanna Lee’s Detectives in the Shadows is an incisive, entertaining jaunt through the hard-boiled genre from its pulp-fiction origins to the present. Lee, Professor…
Autistic characters—both in stories and in real life—have always existed. What we now call autism has long been part of the human condition, even though medicine only began identifying the particular set of physical and mental traits associated with it within the last 100 years. This issue has special relevance to me. I have an…
Women doctors now make up about 60 percent of practitioners under 35. The situation was very different in the past. No Women Doctors Need Apply In her book “Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply”: Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835–1975, Mary Roth Walsh recounts the terrible difficulty women faced in studying medicine and in…