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Mrs. Paschal is the “lady detective” on my profile logo, a Victorian widow who is also a member of an all-woman police branch in London. Was she the *first* lady detective in English detective fiction? #CrimeFiction #BookHistory crimediscourse.com/2021/03/08/who…


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10 Medieval Tips to Solve a Murder buff.ly/2YqEMiU


Started reading a new detective fiction series by Candas Jane Dorsey, *The Adventures of Isabel*. Hardboiled noir plus innovations to the genre. Thinking fans of *Jessica Jones* and Paul Auster would enjoy this. Anyone else read this yet? Other recommentdations?


Update on the True/Crime/Discourse Blog: taking a pause! crimediscourse.com/2021/06/14/a-p…


"In the end, Mare of Easttown turned out to be a cop show. A strange cop show, always almost thinking unthinkable things about what cops are for and might be, but a cop show all the same" lareviewofbooks.org/article/law-an…


Cultural representation and cliches: a round-up about HBO's 'Mare of Easttown' crimediscourse.com/2021/05/28/loc…

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When is someone going to write the article about the Amazon-enabled online clothing scams that are proliferating? They look legit, have great pictures and prices, and then send you knockoff items and charge you more in shipping$ to return items than the item itself. E.g. Zolucky


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"how are we gonna pay for universal health care?" We already pay for it. Just use the $10,000 a year we spend on premiums + copays and cut out health care companies' $40 billion in annual profits. Put our money toward toward health care, not a health insurance exec's 3rd yacht.


Well this was a surprise read this morning: there are actually crime-fighting heroes out there? propublica.org/article/the-ra…


Local Color and Cultural Representation: A Round-up on HBO's 'Mare of Easttown' crimediscourse.com/2021/05/28/loc…


today, yes.

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I just don't understand why opening back up as people get vaccinated also has to mean closing down all the accessibile alternatives created in the last year


Keeping with the the sex trafficking trope I've been writing about, I juxtaposed some artifacts of criminal codes that target race and sex. crimediscourse.com/2021/05/10/the…

CrimeDiscourse's tweet image. Keeping with the the sex trafficking trope I've been writing about, I juxtaposed some artifacts of criminal codes that target race and sex.
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Me until next Sunday #MareOfEasttown

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Rhetoric about sex trafficking and US policies go way back. In practice, the Mann Act (aka "The White Slave Traffic Act") has been enforced unevenly to surveil and criminalize already vulnerable populations. crimediscourse.com/2021/05/07/fol…


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