#148: So, Like, What Is an Impossible Crime or a Locked Room Mystery?
Recent experiences of reading Darkness at Pemberley by T.H. White and What a Body! by Alan Green — oh my days, I’ve only just noticed that they’re both named after colours… — have made me wonder on...
View Article#207: Five GAD Collaborations That Would Have Been Awesome
I’ve read a lot of comics in my time, I spend many hours online enthusiastically contributing to discussions about a moderately obscure area of popular culture — hell, I even wear glasses. I must,...
View Article#527: Plotting the Perfect Crime – Potential and Pay-Off via The House of...
Slowly, slowly I work my way through the Otto Penzler-edited Woo Whatta Lotta Locked Room Mysteries (2014) — it’s not really a convenient size to dip into — and, since my chronological reading of...
View Article#546: The 10 Types of Impossible Crime – Categories and Titles from Our Talk...
After being on something of an enforced hiatus for a little while, The Men Who Explain Miracles, the occasional podcast run by Dan from The Reader is Warned and myself, returned yesterday for a live...
View ArticleIn GAD We Trust – Episode 5: GAD in the Time of COVID-19 [w’ Brad @...
As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls into its 348th week, Brad from AhSweetMysteryBlog is here with some salutary advice. See, back in March, Brad made a great case for the approaching crisis and enforced...
View ArticleIn GAD We Trust – Episode 7: The Father Brown Stories of G.K. Chesterton [w’...
This week on my Lockdown Podcast In GAD We Trust, the cream of G.K. Chesterton’s stories about his crime-solving Roman Catholic priest as selected by John who blogs at Countdown John’s Christie...
View Article#702: Shedunnit x The Invisible Event – Locked Room Mysteries
You’re doubtless aware of the superbly wide-ranging Golden Age-focussed Shedunnit podcast run by Caroline Crampton, and I was delighted to be asked to contribute to an episode about locked room...
View ArticleIn GAD We Trust – Episode 11: The Tropes of Detective Fiction [w’ James Scott...
The time has come again for some nerdy Golden Age Detection podcasting, and James Scott Byrnside is here to oblige with a discussion about some of the tropes we know and love from GAD fiction After...
View ArticleIn GAD We Trust – Episode 12: Appeal and Deception in Golden Age Detective...
You thought this podcast was nerdy before? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Today we welcome the GADisphere’s own Scott K. Ratner, and things get taxonomical… Scott is at the top of my list of GAD fans who...
View Article#726: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 7: The Detective-as-Criminal
I hope I’ll finish this undertaking before another year passes, but with the end of November upon us this is my last post on the Knox Decalogue for this year. So, what have we got? The detective must...
View Article#22: The Nine Wrong Answers – Popular Authors Who Fail to Impress
Much like you – well, exactly like you, I’d imagine – there are authors I love and authors I don’t. Almost as a counter-point to last week’s My Blog Name in Books, here is my list of nine ‘classic’...
View Article#44: Who are the Kings of Crime?
The Tuesday Night Bloggers – an opt-in blogging group initially started by ‘Passing Tramp’ Curtis Evans to commemorate Agatha Christie’s 125th birthday but since expanded to include a broader program...
View Article#790: On the Morals of Golden Age Detective Fiction, via Crime and Detection...
That title is doing a lot of work, isn’t it? Fair warning: this goes on a bit. At the online Bodies from the Library conference last weekend, I gave a talk inspired in part by E.M. Wrong’s...
View ArticleIn GAD We Trust – Episode 22: On Making a Good First Impression [w’ Sergio @...
After the interruption to the schedule of two weeks ago, here’s another In GAD We Trust podcast — and given the topic of ‘Making a Good First Impression’ it’s only fitting to welcome returning guests...
View Article#971: (Spooky) Little Fictions – Ghosts from the Library [ss] (2022) ed. Tony...
With the annual Bodies from the Library collections, which have brought long out-of-print stories of crime and detection back to public awareness, proving rightly popular, editor Tony Medawar turns...
View Article#1000: A Locked Room Library – One Hundred Recommended Books
In the back of my mind when I started The Invisible Event was the idea that exactly half of what I’d post about would feature impossible crimes, locked room mysteries, and/or miracle problems — and...
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