Skip to content

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
  • First post on

Posts per month

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Aug 2022 3
Sep 2022 8
Oct 2022 9
Nov 2022 10
Dec 2022 10
Jan 2023 9
Feb 2023 7
Mar 2023 10
Apr 2023 9
May 2023 9
Jun 2023 8
Jul 2023 8
Aug 2023 8
Sep 2023 9
Oct 2023 9
Nov 2023 8
Dec 2023 1

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

The Christmas Miracle Crimes (2023) by A. Carver
Back in August, I posted a huge, ungainly retrospective of everyone's favorite subset of the traditional detective story, "The Locked Room Mystery & Impossible Crime Story in the 21st Century: A Brief Historic Overview of …
On , by TomCat, 2,641 words
The Kindaichi Case Files: Death TV by Yozaburo Kanari and Fumiya Sato
I'm consistently about two months, give or take a week or two, ahead on schedule with enough blog-posts and reviews queued to occasionally slip away from the blog without it getting noticed, which every now …
On , by TomCat, 1,425 words
Inspector De Klerck and the Unwanted Death (2023) by P. Dieudonné
Rechercheur De Klerck en de ongewenste dood (Inspector De Klerck and the Unwanted Death, 2023) is the ninth novel by the increasingly prolific Dutch mystery novelist, P. Dieudonné, who debuted only four years ago with …
On , by TomCat, 911 words