Monthly Archives: August 2017

Brief Interrupting Mystery

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Nalkarj

I know I promised to do Part 2 of “Notes for the Curious” yesterday; I apologize that I didn’t follow through with it. (I actually got very sick on Thursday and am still recovering now.) Still, my apologies, and I … Continue reading →

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Notes for the Curious

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Nalkarj

Crime and the occult! These were the only hobbies for a man of taste! I just had to start with that. This may seem a strange topic for a post, I know, but John Dickson Carr’s epigraphs and sources have … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, John Dickson Carr, Musings | Tagged Beneath Suspicion, Books, Don Quixote, Dorothy Sayers, Impossible Crime, John Dickson Carr, M.R. James, Margaret Murray, Musings, Mystery, non-dead, Pepys, The Affair of the Poisons, The Burning Court, The Hand of Glory, The Ingoldsby Legends, Thoughts, Witchcraft | 5 Comments

Review: Nine Man’s Murder

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Nalkarj

Regular readers of this blog (and thank you immeasurably for that!) know that I don’t usually do reviews. That’s mostly because I simply don’t have the patience for them (oh, how my mind wanders!), which is why my hat is … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Reviews | Tagged Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Eric Keith, Nine Man's Murder, Review, Ten Little Indians, Terrible | 8 Comments

Open Question

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Nalkarj

I do intend soon to post something that’s more than filler, folks, but until then… What books do you know that are comparable to Christie’s And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)? On the IMDb v2.0 boards, one poster … Continue reading →