Author Archives: Nalkarj

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 →

Posted in Filler, Musings | Tagged Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Filler, John Dickson Carr, Musings, Open Question, Raven King, Ten Little Indians, The Hollow Man | 2 Comments

“The Time Has Come…

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Nalkarj

…,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.” Well, the time has come for the solution to “Death in the Sun,” too–so here goes… … Continue reading →

Posted in Game of Wits, My Stories, Solutions | Tagged Arning, Clues, Death in the Sun, Geoffrey Lord, Impossible Crime, Lewis Carroll, My Story, solution, Thurlow | 7 Comments

New Carrian Author?

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Nalkarj

I’ll try to post the solution to “Death in the Sun” soon, but until then… Has anyone seen this piece of Jon L. Breen’s in the Weekly Standard? Fascinating stuff. http://www.weeklystandard.com/room-for-murder/article/2002994

Posted in Authors, Musings, Reviews | Tagged Books, Death in the Sun, John Dickson Carr, Jon L. Breen, Locked Room Mystery, Mystery, New Authors, The Weekly Standard | 4 Comments

“For Every Evil Under the Sun…”

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Nalkarj

“Death in the Sun” a Geoffrey Lord tale The heat was oppressive that afternoon, cooking the sand and brazening the outstretched, squirming bodies such that they resembled brass sardines. One of the sardines, however, was outstretched but not squirming; the … Continue reading →

Posted in Game of Wits, Games, My Stories | Tagged Game, Geoffrey Lord, Impossible Crime, My Story, Mystery, Paula Vale, Pop O'Leary, Story, Sun | 15 Comments

Updates

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Nalkarj

I’m still wondering if anyone is interested in expressing his or her thoughts about the last two posts–mostly because I’ve been musing over them for the last few days! I intend to post a Geoffrey Lord impossible crime/ “no footprints” … Continue reading →

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Is ‘Lord Edgware Dies’ Fair Play?

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Nalkarj

Originally posted on Golden Age of Detective Fiction Forum:
I’ve recently reread Christie’s “Lord Edgware Dies” (aka “Thirteen at Dinner”) and was again troubled by the question of whether one of the key moments of misdirection is fair. Hastings has…

Posted in Musings, Reviews | Tagged Agatha Christie, Captain Hastings, Fair Play, GAD, Hercule Poirot, Jane Wilkinson, Lord Edgware Dies, Musings, Question, Thoughts | 4 Comments

An Undignified Melodrama for My Bone of Contention

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Nalkarj

OK, folks, I’m in a bit of a quandary: I have a new Geoffrey Lord story, and I think it’s fairly decent, but it’s longer than any of the others I’ve posted, and I’m not sure if you’d all be … Continue reading →

Posted in Game of Wits, Musings, My Stories | Tagged Bone of Contention, Geoffrey Lord, Help, Mystery, Quandary, Question, riddle, Short Story, Story | 3 Comments

Solution Time!

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Nalkarj

OK, folks, it’s time for the solution to “The Unhinged Man”… … Continue reading →

Posted in Game of Wits, Games, Musings, My Stories, Solutions | Tagged Alan Tewksbury, Cardinal, Game of Wits, Geoffrey Lord, QED, solution, terence crane, The Puzzlers, unhinged | 3 Comments

Desert [Not “Dessert”!] Island Books

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Nalkarj

Well, it seems that I haven’t posted anything here except my own fiction for a while–a sincere thank you to everyone who has looked at it and especially to those who have commented!–but I’ll try to remedy that with this … Continue reading →