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WEIRD NEWS
A Bag Of Wet Socks Is Apparently Living In The White House Press Briefing Room
By Jenna Amatulli
"The formerly wet bag of socks... has become crusty," tweeted a reporter who thrice spotted the socks.
BBC Stories
WORLD NEWS
A Mysterious Stranger Has Been Leaving Flowers At This Boy's Grave For Decades
By Carol Kuruvilla
And the BBC is on it, bless its heart.
An employee holds 500 euro banknotes in the Money Service Austria company's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo
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WEIRD NEWS
Someone Was Literally Flushing Heaps Of Money Down Swiss Toilets
By Nina Golgowski
And authorities want to know why.
WBZ Boston
WEIRD NEWS
Mysterious Object Makes Waves On Rhode Island Beach
By David Moye
Even after bringing it to shore, people have no idea what it is.
Fox Valley Humane Association
WEIRD NEWS
Shelter’s Posts About A Chewed-Up Dog Toy Read Like An Episode Of ‘CSI’
By Elyse Wanshel
It is a VERY good crime story.
Authorities say a child-size casket containing human remains was found on Monday
KYW-TV
CRIME
Child's Casket Containing Human Organs Found On Pennsylvania Sidewalk
By David Lohr
"It looked like something straight out of 'Thriller,'" a witness said.
Reddit
WEIRD NEWS
People Can't Find This Woman's Legs In Viral Group Photo
By Carla Herreria
Even the woman in the photo was confused.
** FILE ** In this 1963 file photo, mystery author Agatha Christie is shown in London. (AP Photo, file)
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ARTS & CULTURE
For Women, Agatha Christie's Murder Mysteries Are As Soothing As Bedtime Stories
By Priscilla Frank
The peace of mind that washes over readers in a bow-tied Christie denouement is comforting to all, but especially to women.
BOOKS
Why I'm Not Giving In To "Surrender, New York"
By Lev Raphael, Contributor
Author, Reviewer, Blogger
And kill a reader's interest, too. While the story is hypermodern in subject matter, it feels decidedly old-school in its
BOOKS
How Do You Write a Novel? Learn the Rules. Then Break Them.
By Holly Robinson, Contributor
Journalist, Novelist, and Ghostwriter
I'm about to publish my sixth novel, Folly Cove, this fall, and my means of feeling my way out of those slimy or prickly
BOOKS
Genre Snobs Are Everywhere
By Lev Raphael, Contributor
Author, Reviewer, Blogger
The contempt these mystery readers sometimes feel directed at them gets recycled as they express disdain for books they don't like which have been written and enjoyed by people they have to denigrate. That's not an argument or even a defense: it's blatant insecurity.
GPS FOR THE SOUL
Why Do We Love Mysteries?
By John David Mann, Contributor
Coauthor of the international bestseller The Go-Giver and The ...
BOOKS
Book Review: "The Ice Child"
By Thelma Adams, Contributor
Author of 'The Last Woman Standing: A Novel,' film critic and ...
Besides its insane page-turner quality that kept me up on succeeding nights well after a reasonable bedtime, there are so
BOOKS
'Goodbye to the Dead,' A Conversation with Brian Freeman
By Mark Rubinstein, Contributor
Novelist, psychiatrist, physician
Congratulations on writing Goodbye to the Dead, a twist-filled psychological suspense novel exploring the nature of good
ENTERTAINMENT
Why Do Smart People Turn Stupid in Thrillers?
By Lev Raphael, Contributor
Author, Reviewer, Blogger
I've seen this scene play out over and over in movie thrillers, and read it too: People hear noises in houses where they should be alone and they ask, "Hello? Is anybody there?" What the hell could they be expecting? FedEx?
BOOKS
Author Yona Zeldis McDonough on Lucky Breaks and Following Your Writing Instincts
By Holly Robinson, Contributor
Journalist, Novelist, and Ghostwriter
Yona Zeldis McDonough is the author of seven novels for adults. She is also an award-winning children's book author with 26 children's books to her credit, a journalist, an essayist, and a fiction editor who helps aspiring writers polish their manuscripts.
BOOKS
'Where It Hurts,' A Conversation With Reed Farrel Coleman
By Mark Rubinstein, Contributor
Novelist, psychiatrist, physician
Reed Farrel Coleman, known to thriller lovers everywhere, is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins, in addition to having written twenty-two other novels.
EDUCATION
What Makes Academic Crime Fiction Tick?
By Lev Raphael, Contributor
Author, Reviewer, Blogger
I served my time in academia for over a decade. And a few years after I left, I decided to start a mystery series set in that environment.
BOOKS
The Accidental Interrogation: Pinning Down Nikki Nelson-Hicks Part 3
By Paul Bishop, Contributor
Novelist, screenwriter and television personality
You always have a number of schemes spinning around in your head. What would be your dream project? Nikki can be stalked
BOOKS
Art in the Blood - A Rousing Sherlock Holmes Adventure
By Paola K Amaras , Contributor
and Paul T. Kraly. Dreamer, mythologizer, commentator, co-own...
Bonnie MacBird 'found' Art in the Blood - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, as a manuscript hidden in a forgotten tome of Victorian medical lore, and has brought us another adventure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, as narrated by his companion, Dr. John Watson.
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