#1343: Little Fictions – ‘A Case of Identity’ (1964) by Randall Garrett | The Invisible Event
Another Tuesday, another Lord Darcy story, in which Randall Garrett mixes magic and detection in an alternate-history Europe.| The Invisible Event
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This guest review comes from Lisa! A longtime romance aficionado and frequent commenter to SBTB, Lisa is a queer Latine critic with a sharp tongue and lots of opinions. She frequently reviews at All About Romance and Women Write About Comics, where she’s on staff, and you can catch her at @thatbouviergirl on Twitter. There, she shares good reviews, bracing industry opinions and thoughtful commentary when she’s not on her grind looking for the next … Continue reading Miss Caroline Bin...| Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches, Trashy Books
Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy stories, where murder and magic mingle in an alternate-history Europe, being a closed set, I had never really thought to consider the gaps between them before now. So here’s the last story on this blog before we take a little break and return to finish the canon next year, it’s… ‘A … Continue reading #1352: Little Fictions – ‘A Matter of Gravity’ (1974) by Randall Garrett| The Invisible Event
A gap of six years followed Randall Garrett’s sole Lord Darcy novel Too Many Magicians (1967) before he returned to the universe. Was that time well-spent in creating another strong fusion of mystery, magic, and murder? Let’s find out with… ‘A Stretch of the Imagination’ (1973) When Lord Arlen, “owner and head of one of … Continue reading #1349: Little Fictions – ‘A Stretch of the Imagination’ (1973) by Randall Garrett| The Invisible Event
More magic, mummery, and misdirection from Randall Garrett’s alternate history Europe, and this time a bit of an impossible crime thrown in to boot. Not that he makes much of that element. Buckle your swashes(?), it’s… ‘The Muddle of the Woad’ (1965) The discovery of a body in a coffin wouldn’t ordinarily be that much … Continue reading #1346: Little Fictions – ‘The Muddle of the Woad’ (1965) by Randall Garrett| The Invisible Event
I’m not entirely sure what I expected from The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius, but it wasn’t a Gulliver’s Travels (1726)-esque multinational adventure written by an intelligent gorilla. And while the book that results is in no way a bad thing, it’s also not really a murder mystery in the vein of what I’m … Continue reading #1319: Minor Felonies – The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius [trans. Peter Graves 2017]| The Invisible Event
Another Tuesday, another Lord Darcy story, in which Randall Garrett mixes magic and detection in an alternate-history Europe.| The Invisible Event
About the Book In the heat of the desert, will the trail go cold? Cairo, 1938. Archie Nevenden is many amateur archaeologist; theatre impresario; absent father; potential defector. And now, he̵…| What Cathy Read Next...
Perhaps two decades a go, I read some, but not all, of the Lord Darcy series of stories by Randall Garrett, in which detection is augmented with magic. And I’ve been telling people they’…| The Invisible Event
Welcome to today’s stop on the blog tour for The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead, the latest in the crime series featuring illusionist and solver of seemingly insoluble mysteries, Jos…| What Cathy Read Next...
I have reviewed every Falco novel but a few on this blog. Lindsey Davis is one of the iconic authors of my personal canon. I hugely appreciate her wit, her nuanced and empathic view of humanity, he…| Peat Long's Blog
Welcome to book spotlight where instead of giving you another book review, I’m just going to talk about books I’ve read recently that I enjoyed. Prepare yourself for the fangirl gushing. I first re…| Keeper of the Wood Between Worlds
“My New Year’s resolution is to murder a man I’ve never met” — thus does Basil Palmer lay out his intentions at the very start of his journal in Hemlock Bay (2024) by …| The Invisible Event
