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My April 2017 A To Z Challenge!

My April 2017 A To Z Challenge!

My 2017 A To Z, Based on The Strand Magazine

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My 2016 A To Z: Artificial Artifacts Again!

My 2016 A To Z: Artificial Artifacts Again!

Alchemical Anchorites! Biography of a Bounder! A Curse Curiously Compounded!

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My 2015 A To Z: Alas!

My 2015 A To Z: Alas!

A Complete Mystery Novelette; also, Pictures of Myself As The Various Characters

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My 2018 April A to Z Blogging Challenge: The Lighthouse!

My 2018 April A to Z Blogging Challenge: The Lighthouse!

Time Travel And Other Perils! Click to start with my Theme Reveal (from which you can navigate to the other posts in the A to Z)!

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The Perils of Sir Reginald, Bart: A Twine Game

By Melanie Atherton Allen May 30, 2017 May 8, 2018 Games

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

The Violent Altercator (Is Innocent) #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 25, 2019 April 25, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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

Unsympathetic Do-Gooder #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 24, 2019 April 24, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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

The Triangle #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 23, 2019 April 23, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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

The Sketchy Suicide #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 22, 2019 April 22, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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. For example,… Continue reading

Respectable Family Solicitor #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 20, 2019 April 20, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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. For example,… Continue reading

Questions You Shouldn’t Know Enough To Ask #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 19, 2019 April 19, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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, however,… Continue reading

The Patched-Up Quarrel #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 18, 2019 April 18, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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. For example,… Continue reading

On Trial (Therefore Innocent) #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 17, 2019 April 17, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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, I… Continue reading

Null and Void #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 16, 2019 April 16, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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. However, today’s… Continue reading

Mother-in-the-Box #AtoZChallenge Mystery Tropes

By Melanie Atherton Allen April 15, 2019 April 15, 2019 A To Z Challenge 2019

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. …but the… Continue reading