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The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) by G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton’s mystery writings featuring the crime-solving parish priest Father Brown stand today as some of the most influential in the entire history of genre. To refer to a plot-point as “Chestertonian” is a term so ubiquitous that even someone who has never read his works understands the paradox of hiding something without really…
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Death Among the Undead (2017) by Masahiro Imamura, trans. Ho-Ling Wong (2021)
This is not a review of Death Among the Undead by Masahiro Imamura. When I first discovered Golden Age mysteries I was 15 years old, a freshman in high-school whose only experience with mystery fiction was my fondness for the the still eminently wonderful Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney video game franchise, a few odd parodies…
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Detective Conan Volumes 16 to 29 — 14-Volume Review Lightning Round
(*Note, although this is the sixteenth in this series of reviews, I only encourage you to read my review of the first volume to get a summary of the series and my preamble about the reviews. It is not necessary to read any other entry in the series besides the first) You may or may not have…
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Analyses
Update to Blog + New Discord Community
This is not going to be a long and drawn-out post, and is just a micro-post for an announcement!First of all, this blog has been updated with an “Authors, Works, and Reviews” page, where every post I made on this blog is recorded in organized fashion so you can easily search for specific reviews and…
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On the Increasingly Essential Frontier of Hybrid Mysteries – Fantasy, Science-Fiction, and Murder (Part 2/2 – Howdunit?)
The “hybrid mystery”, murder mysteries summoning the traits and tropes of other genres, offers unique capabilities to detective authors and readers, allowing the creative mystery author to enhance murder plots with the trappings of secondary genres, to inform plot, character, scenario, and solution with magic or fantastical science, and to give a new lease on…
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On 2022 and Beyond – A Retro-Prospective
As the sun slowly sets on another stressful year, it’s the perfect opportunity to look back on 2022 with all of its stresses and dangers as, fortunately, yet another year we’re all together united by the common thread of puzzling detection. Murders in English manors, thefts committed from within locked vaults, and disappearances of people…
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Solving the Mystery of Murder 