Evidence Be A Detective In 12 Easy Lessons From the firm of Philo and Gubb, “The Oxford University of Correspondence Schools” If you believe you have received this in error, please keep it as our free gift to you- and remember, there are Eleven More of these Fine Lessons, available… Continue reading
Disguise “Freddie, I’m so tired of waiting! I want to be with you openly!” “Adele can’t last much longer, my sweet. Her doctor gives her two weeks, and says that that is a generous offer.” “Yes, but he’s said that before. You know what you must do. Put it in… Continue reading
Country House For Sale: Rambling Country Estate in isolated district. The trains are convenient, and reliable, except on Dark And Stormy Nights, when they tend to inexplicably break down. Cellars dry and slightly haunted. Good, slightly haunted drains. Dungeon is in bad repair and extremely and disturbingly haunted. But take… Continue reading
Baronet Auntie Agony’s Advice Constant Reader wrote me a letter that I do not, even now, quite know how to answer. I hope you will not mind, dear Constant Reader, if I quote your letter in full; I know my other readers shan’t mind, as it is very brief. The… Continue reading
Arsenic A homely, domestic poison; to be used in Disposal of rats, husbands, and rich old relatives. Great Uncle Filbert seems unkillable, you say? He has survived a fall down the stairs, a head-on collision with a speeding Omnibus, and a mild attack of Stabbing? And now he is laid… Continue reading
It is with a combination of scientific excitement and mortal terror that I announce that I, Dr. Gerald Patsy, one of the most respected practitioners of Psychiat now living (and if you think I haven’t made damn sure of that, you don’t know Dr. Patsy), have been given the job… Continue reading
To The Editor: Display Prominently! Make Sticky! It is Your Duty As A Citizen and Your Obligation As An Employee Of Atherton’s Magic Vapour, LLC (co. 2190) to COMPLY! Let Not the Pleas of Hugo Makewar cause you to Weaken! Ed. Note: Not a problem. He actually seems to like… Continue reading
Writer’s Block. It happens. And it is beastly. So, as a Public Service, I am compiling a list of solutions that I have found effective; this is the beginning of that process. I will add to this post as I think of, discover, or hear about new techniques; for now,… Continue reading
Dispatch From Our Time-Travelling Correspondent, Hugo Makewar: Tit-Bits, long thought to be a sort of Holy Grail of Victorian Erotica, a Legendary City to Collectors of Curiosa the World Round, Does Not Actually Produce Pornography. I was surprised and disappointed to find that it was a mere Comick Rag, and… Continue reading
