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Sue Grafton, A to Z

Sue Grafton grew up pulling noir crime fiction off her father’s shelves in their Louisville home. But it wasn’t until she was in her 40s, already a published novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, that she tried her hand at the genre. In part, it was to escape the movies. “I’m just not a team player,” she […]

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Encyclopedia Brown

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Forty-eight years ago, Donald J. Sobol put sneakers on Sherlock Holmes and set him in small-town America. Produced by Studio 360’s Derek John.

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Israeli Pulp

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The Israeli writer Gadi Taub is doing his best to bring the spirit of James Ellroy to the Middle East. Taub’s edgy crime novel, Allenby Street, is set in a seedy Tel Aviv nightclub, and it shocked and disturbed Israeli readers when it came out last year. Produced by Michael May.

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James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction

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The man behind L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia has amassed a cult following and a reputation as the best modern noir writer around. His new book, Hilliker’s Curse: My Pursuit of Women, is a memoir. Kurt talked with James Ellroy in 2009 when his book Blood’s A Rover came out.

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Elementary, Dr. House

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For six seasons, “House, M.D.” has been diagnosing patients with the same reason, deduction, and flair that Holmes relied upon to solve crimes. And that’s no accident. The show’s creator David Shore tells Kurt that his series was originally conceived as a police procedural in a hospital where germs are the suspects.

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Encyclopedia Brown

Forty-eight years ago, Donald J. Sobol put sneakers on Sherlock Holmes and set him in small-town America. Produced by Studio 360’s Derek John.

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