Tag Archives: Thoughts

Help Request

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Nalkarj

At the risk of returning just to ask for what the title says—some help—I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while, to no avail. I wonder if anyone in the mystery-loving blogosphere may be able to help! 🙂 … Continue reading →

Posted in Help, Questions, TV | Tagged Columbo, Help, Mystery, Question, Thoughts, TV | 17 Comments

The Verdict of You All…

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Nalkarj

This is a question I’ve mused over for a while, but it’s one of those times in which it may well be more difficult to formulate question rather than answer! (Socrates would be proud.) Simply put, it would be “who … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Musings, Questions | Tagged Books, Lists, Musings, Mystery, Open Question, Thoughts | 7 Comments

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

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…