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A To Z Challenge Theme Reveal: Who Killed Lord Cadblister?

  By Melanie Atherton Allen March 23, 2015 May 31, 2020 A To Z April Challenge 2015, Blogging A to Z, Mystery

I am once more participating in the April A To Z Blogging Challenge!  For an explanation of this event, click here. Today is the day of the great Theme Reveal, and I am eager to reveal mine.  It is to be a mystery, and every day in April (except Sundays)… Continue reading

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Prelude To Murder: Answers And Comments

  By Melanie Atherton Allen December 7, 2014 December 7, 2014 Books, Games, Mystery

In my last post, I asked my readers to spot all of the clues/mystery tropes/mystery genre conventions in the passage below.  I said, rather mysteriously, that I counted between 12 and 16 of the things myself.  I now present you with my own list of Clues, Tropes, and Genre Conventions. … Continue reading

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Prelude to Murder

  By Melanie Atherton Allen November 24, 2014 December 6, 2014 Games, Mystery

In murder mysteries, there is generally a certain amount of text between the title page and the discovery of The First Corpse.  This text usually Sets The Tone and Builds Tension.  It is also Positively Salted With Clues; this is so that The Reader will Feel Like An Idiot later. … Continue reading

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A Letter To Lady Ermyntrude

  By Melanie Atherton Allen July 12, 2014 July 12, 2014 Lady Ermyntrude, Murder At Atherton Manor, Mystery

Lady Ermyntrude Coldfish Castle Dearest E, I say, you’ve jolly well got to drop whatever you are doing (probably something silly, like Higher Math, which is just the sort of thing that would appeal to your frivolous mind) and come here at once!  Conjuro Te!  If that is Latin, which… Continue reading

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Floor Plans of Atherton Manor

  By Melanie Atherton Allen June 22, 2014 June 23, 2014 Lady Ermyntrude, Mystery
Vintage Lady Portrait

A Kind Of Teaser Visitors to this blog may or may not be aware that I also have a website, The Athertonian.  The distinction between The Athertonian and Atherton’s Magic Vapour is slightly vague in my mind, and it is about to get even more difficult to tell the two… Continue reading

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The Mystery Section

  By Melanie Atherton Allen May 10, 2014 April 5, 2017 Artificial Artifacts, Best of, Books, Mystery

The Mystery Section: An Open letter to Barnes and Noble, with painstakingly constructed visual aids Dear Barnes and Noble, I love mysteries.  Therefore, when I found myself in a Barnes & Noble the other day, I naturally drifted over to the Mystery section. I had forgotten how useless this would… Continue reading

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Z is for…

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 30, 2014 March 30, 2016 A To Z 2014, Artificial Artifacts, Blogging A to Z, Ephemera, Mystery

Zeppelin Z is for Zeppelin: A Poem Eleven Little Pleasure-Seekers On a Zeppelin One Got Vertigo, and Then There Were Ten   Ten People Up Where The Air Is Fine; One Went Mad, and then There Were Nine.   Nine Old Friends in the Hands of Fate; An Old Quarrel… Continue reading

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Y is for…

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 29, 2014 March 30, 2016 A To Z 2014, Artificial Artifacts, Best of, Blogging A to Z, Ephemera, Mystery

Yacht Gentlemen!  Do you sometimes Find It Necessary to have a Private Chat in Pleasant Surroundings With Someone Who May Or May Not Be Going Home Again? Do you find it Difficult to find a Venue for your Business Meetings? Are you getting tired of Disposing of Witnesses? Have you… Continue reading

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X is for…

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 28, 2014 March 30, 2016 A To Z 2014, Artificial Artifacts, Best of, Blogging A to Z, Ephemera, Mystery

X Marks The Spot Where The Body Was Found Notes: No case in over a week.  Nothing of real interest since the case of The Bilious Barking Bouncing Baby Bassinet (I shudder to remember the details of that case, and yet I would trade my current peace for another like… Continue reading

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W is for…

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 26, 2014 March 30, 2016 A To Z 2014, Artificial Artifacts, Blogging A to Z, Ephemera, Mystery

Widow Four Times A Widow, She Will Brave The Altar Once More Madame Carnehomme Will Walk Up The Aisle Again- Will The Fates Be Kinder To Her This Time Than They Have Been Thus Far? “Zometimes I wonder if I am Cursed!”  Says the Charming Mme. Carnehomme Madame Carnehomme, the… Continue reading

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