May 8th, 2018-A Slightly Updated Version of the Game!!! Huzzah! Click on the Link at the bottom of this Post to Play! NOTE: landscape mode is best on tablets and phones. To access the Very Important Side Bar Thing, if your device decides that it should be closed by default,… Continue reading
As April looms ever nearer, one thing becomes clearer and clearer to me: I am not participating in the April A to Z Challenge this year. I need to take a breather. Now, you’d think that a whole year would be enough of a breather, but apparently it isn’t, this… Continue reading
Total Excitement! The long-awaited (by me, and by all those who like a really fine occult detective-type story) Occult Detective Magazine #6 is finally available for purchase! It includes, among other fine works, my story “The Rending Veil,” starring Simon Wake and his two hapless friends Pendleton and Anderson. “The… Continue reading
Hey, look at that! It is Z! We made it! Yippee! Ahem. Right. This month, I’ve been attempting to identify, name, and describe Golden Age murder mystery tropes. I’ve been focusing on clue tropes, and on tropes that allow the knowing reader to solve the mystery, or to predict something… Continue reading
An Announcement Ladies and Gentlemen! Announcing an exciting upcoming publication: Occult Detective Quarterly #6. This is a quarterly magazine that publishes occult detective stories–exclusively. What is an occult detective story, you ask? It is (and this sounds pretty obvious, now that I’m typing it) a story featuring an occult detective.… Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to my 2019 A to Z Challenge! This year, I am giving you my personal list of Golden Age Mystery Tropes. Particularly clue-tropes, and also those tropes that an experienced mystery reader finds herself using to solve the mystery without reference to the actual clues. This one… Continue reading
Welcome to my 2019 Mystery Tropes #AtoZChallenge! For most of this month, I have been presenting my own personal list of Golden Age mystery tropes. But not today. Today, I am not doing a particular trope. Instead, I have a fancy Bingo card for you! Huzzah! It is all the… Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to my 2019 A to Z Challenge! This year, I am giving you my personal list of Golden Age Mystery Tropes. Particularly clue-tropes, and also those tropes that an experienced mystery reader finds herself using to solve the mystery without reference to the actual clues. This one… Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to my 2019 A to Z Challenge! This year, I am giving you my personal list of Golden Age Mystery Tropes. Particularly clue-tropes, and also those tropes that an experienced mystery reader finds herself using to solve the mystery without reference to the actual clues. Today’s trope… Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to my 2019 A to Z Challenge! This year, I am giving you my personal list of Golden Age Mystery Tropes. Particularly clue-tropes, and also those tropes that an experienced mystery reader finds herself using to solve the mystery without reference to the actual clues. Today’s trope… Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to my 2019 A to Z Challenge! This year, I am giving you my personal list of Golden Age Mystery Tropes. Particularly clue-tropes, and also those tropes that an experienced mystery reader finds herself using to solve the mystery without reference to the actual clues. Today’s trope… Continue reading
