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Jim Thompson is the perfect novelist for our crazed times

  • Written by Susanna Lee, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University

Crime fiction often thrives in periods of social and political tension, when readers long for both justice and stability. So it’s no wonder that as the pandemic took root, crime fiction salesrose.

As I explain in my new book, “Detectives in the Shadows,” many of the protagonists of hard-boiled crime fiction, from Philip Marlowe to...

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