RElatives, Acquisitive If you are a Subscriber to this fine Periodical, you are, according to our recent Member Survey, a Rich Old Man. With Christmas only a month away, you are, no doubt, in the process of sending out Invites to the Familial Manse for the traditional Old-Fashioned Christmas Family… Continue reading
Quicklime Madam, You are in a Pickle and No Mistake! Most of us DO NOT EXPECT to commit MURDER. But Sometimes The Unexpected Happens And we find ourselves with A Corpse on our hands. At these times… You Can Count On Quigley’s Quicklime!!!! Quigley’s Quicklime: Dissolving Inconvenient Corpses since 1801… Continue reading
Person or Persons Unknown Front Row: Mary, Hamish, Hammett, Holmes Back Row: Edgar, Grimm, “Topper,” The Village Witch, Mr. Moppet, Mrs. Moppet, Victoria Moppet (aka “Lil”), “Sweepsie,” Rue, MacAbre A Logical Conundrum Use the Clews below and the picture above to solve The Crime. Write in with Your Solution, making… Continue reading
Omens Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner Does the above… Continue reading
Nosy Neighbors Writ By A Low Type What Has Risen In The World (Or, To Be Frank, Dictated-Like, To A Lad What Knows How To Spell, Proper) Hello, Alfie W. ‘ere, with me weekly Account of my Hobservations Among The Nobs. Any words what you lads don’t know, try to… Continue reading
Maze Langley’s Labyrinths Are Available For Hire! Gentlemen, you may think it Unlikely that you will be called upon to Assassinate one of England’s Political Enemies. You may even describe such a practice as Barbarous. But One Must Look To The Future! Who can say what it holds? Do you… Continue reading
Last Will And Testament Last Will And Testament of Gilford Grimsby I, Gilford Grimsby, being of Sound Mind, and Disliking Solicitors, especially my own Solicitor, Mr. Gaunt, who is a sniveling Stick-In-The-Mud and REFUSED to write this Will out properly, have decided to do it myself. I ask that… Continue reading
Key-Holes We all have our little secrets… little, silly things we don’t want Bruited Abroad… Things that our Husbands, our Friends, and our Servants would never understand… We close our doors and imagine we are Unobserved… We like to think that Really Nice People Do Not Peek At Key-Holes. But,… Continue reading
Jilted lovers By An Anonymous Society Lady Monday, 1st November My Dears! I know that you all read my Little Weekly Effort because I ‘dish the dirt’ – with a Vengeance! And I have SUCH dirt for you today, I hardly know where to begin! But I suppose I’ll tell… Continue reading
Inquest Inquest On Death of Long-Lost Heir Breaks Up In Some Disorder The Case of “Tichborne Again” Is Complicated By Claimant’s Sudden Death [ezcol_1half] Dramatic End Of A Sordid Business The latest chapter in the most sensational controversy of the new century opened on Sunday, October 5th, when the man… Continue reading
