Every so often, a story surfaces that a hospital has run out of a common medicine — a basic chemotherapy drug, a sterile injectable, an antibiotic that has exis…
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For most of its history, the image of the gambler has been stubbornly male: the riverboat sharp, the high roller, the lone man staring down a hand. Yet running …
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The crimes rarely begin with greed. They begin with a hole, a debt that grew quietly in the dark until it became too large to confess. The women in these cases …
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She begins, in the oldest version of the story, as a woman waiting. The gambler's wife sits at home while her husband loses the rent at the tables, and her role…
Few settings do as much work for a crime writer as a casino. Drop a character onto a gambling floor and the place starts generating story before a single line o…