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Cool Web Links

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A curated hand-list of sites, collectors, scholars, and living projects that share our obsession with the crime and detective fiction of the late 1800s — and the visual, material, and social world those stories inhabited.

Eleven destinations, one broadsheet. Some are long-running blogs, some are specialist collector pages, some are the official footprints of the departments and institutions our novels depend on. All are worth your afternoon.

NYPD History

NYPD History Site

The official history of the New York City Police Department — badges, commissioners, precinct houses, and the 19th-century force our novels inhabit.

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NYPD History

National Nightstick

A long-running journal for collectors and historians of American police memorabilia — badges, batons, shields, uniforms, and the departments that issued them.

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NYPD History

Yesterday’s Papers

A scholar’s blog on the penny dreadfuls, story papers, and crime fiction of the 19th century — the other side of the Atlantic from our Dark Lantern Tales.

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NYC History

Ephemeral New York

The city’s most patient blog about its own buried past — lost buildings, forgotten avenues, and the everyday New York of the Gilded Age.

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Destinations

Mystery Fanfare

Janet Rudolph’s long-running blog on mystery and crime fiction — reviews, awards, author news, and the living community around the genre.

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Destinations

Pulp Reader

A working collector’s blog on pulp magazines, dime novels, and the popular-fiction publishing world that connected them.

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Destinations

Stanhope Viewers

A specialist resource on the tiny Victorian-era microphotograph novelties embedded in pens, rings, and the walking sticks our characters carry.

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Destinations

Golden Gate Mysteries

San Francisco–set crime fiction, historical and contemporary — from the Barbary Coast era through the fog of the modern city.

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Destinations

Dark Lantern on Facebook

Cover reveals, publication news, and the odd excavated 1880s curiosity — the short-form companion to this site.

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