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
Adrift in endless waves of unrelenting sea Beneath the thunder’s canopy,Celestial be rage or Neptune’s progeny Decided this day’s destiny,Emerge alive and safely disembark at shore Familiar and prosperous—Good sailor’s dream comes true by navigator’s own Hand, mind, and eye reliable.Imagination thrives in warmth and happiness: Just as you seat by hearty stove,Kaleidoscopic swirl of … Continue reading Epode→| 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
Update 28.05.2024: Edited for clarity. This post has been wrought out of many ponderings over the eternal question of “what is a mystery” and “what categories mysteries have”. It is an attempt to refine my previous discussions by introducing a wider definition while salvaging the previous one, by introducing a dichotomy of categories. The inspiration … Continue reading A New Paradigm of Mystery Classification→| The Detection Collection
Decided to quantify the points of disagreement by listing the minute details that may or may not, by personal takes, be relevant. Clearly, some are dependent on the others, but not symmetrically so. I strongly believe that all these entries, except maybe 3, are a must. What do you think?| The Detection Collection
More ramblings about my largest pet peeve. I am at risk of turning into Mr. Lechard if this goes on. I have touched this topic on the surface when talking about trains, but now wish to express it emphatically: I think that Japanese and East Asian mystery in general does one thing in a decidedly … Continue reading Deductions for Today→| The Detection Collection
Update 11.11.2023: edited some places for clarity. With all the content in this blog, it is somewhat surprising – even for myself – that I am yet to make an attempt to define a deductiv…| The Detection Collection
For various external reasons, the selection process took longer than I expected, and now one month turned into three. However, the result is exquisite, and now it’s finally time to pick the N…| The Detection Collection