I am the very model of a honkaku philologist, To any list of mystery rules I shall compile a better list, I always reach completion in deduction inferential, I know to separate the accidental from intentional. I understand the state of genre and current critics as they are, By which I mean the need for … Continue reading The Very Model→| The Detection Collection
The Locked Room Library project is working actively. Today, at over two months since the start, it is time to give some statistical overviews and discuss more gritty details. To start: out of sixteen participants, I am actively receiving and updating the votes from twelve. Out of the remaining ones, one has requested to send … Continue reading New Locked Room Library, 2 (and more) months in: Statistics, Write-ins, Oh My!→| The Detection Collection
Fell, Gideon, retired; formerly schoolmaster, journalist, and historian;b. Stavely Manor, Garth, Lincolnshire, 1884; sec. s. Sir Digby and Lady F.;grad., Eton and Balliol, Harvard (U.S.A.), BA, MA (Oxon.), PhD (Harvard), LLD (Edinburgh).Fellow of Royal Historical Society, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor (France).Publications: Romances of the Seventeenth Century (Smith, 1922); The Drinking Customs of … Continue reading The Dr. Gideon Fell Chronology, Compleat and Revised→| The Detection Collection
In 2007, a panel of experts and reviewers has assembled to select the best of the best, crème de la crème, John Dickson of the Carr impossible crime novels ever created. The result went down in history as The Locked Room Library. But now, more than fifteen years have passed. A great number of works … Continue reading New Locked Room Library→| The Detection Collection