Beneath the Stains of Time
Welcome to the niche corner, dedicated to the great detective stories of yore and their neo-classical descendants.
- By TomCat
- Roughly two posts per week
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| Oct 2022 | 9 |
| Nov 2022 | 10 |
| Dec 2022 | 10 |
| Jan 2023 | 9 |
| Feb 2023 | 7 |
| Mar 2023 | 10 |
| Apr 2023 | 9 |
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| Nov 2023 | 8 |
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| Jan 2024 | 10 |
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| May 2024 | 9 |
| Jun 2024 | 8 |
| Jul 2024 | 9 |
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| Sep 2024 | 7 |
| Oct 2024 | 9 |
| Nov 2024 | 8 |
| Dec 2024 | 8 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
P.J. Fitzsimmons is a ghostwriter for mainstream genres who "dreams of an alternative reality in which P.G. Wodehouse wrote locked room mysteries." Not content with waiting for the Mandela Effect to release a reality-update to …
I first read about Alex Colwell's short story, "A Murder in Christmas Village" (2015), on a now long since deleted website, "The Locked Room Mystery," containing a page listing nineteen seasonal detective novels and short …
I generally prefer homages, parodies and spoofs over outright pastiches, because pastiches seldom measure up to the original and rarely add or outshine the original – imitation has its limitations. So never understood why the …