Showing posts with label mysteries of mysteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mysteries of mysteries. Show all posts
03 February 2026

Two More Tales of Oz

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The 2025 edition of Oziana , the International Wizard of Oz Club’s creative magazine, is now available for purchase through Lulu . This i...
06 March 2025

Raskin Returns, the Sequel

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As Publishers Weekly points out , there’s poetic irony in two previously unknown literary projects surfacing from the literary estate of El...
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17 January 2025

A Mystery Tale from the Early Emerald City

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Oziana is the International Wizard of Oz Club’s creative magazine for fiction and art inspired by the Oz books. It’s been published annuall...
18 June 2024

The Missing Princess of the Marvelous Land

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I’ve been thinking about how The Marvelous Land of Oz could be more of a mystery. As it is, the book is a roller-coaster ride of political ...
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19 January 2024

Detecting Style

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“Red Eye” is a short story by Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane. It was published in Face Off and then in The Best American Mystery Stori...
27 November 2023

The Man with a Butler Did It

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This month I read two British murder mysteries, published twenty years apart, in which the culprit turned out to be the local bigwig killing...
29 August 2022

The First Part of “The Donnington Affair”

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In 1914, Max Pemberton published part of a murder mystery in a magazine called The Premier . It was titled “The Donnington Affair.” Pembe...
07 September 2020

Did Wodehouse Influence Christie?

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles made me wonder if Agatha Christie’s portrayal of the relationship between Capt. Arthur Hastings and Hercu...
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01 September 2020

Captain Hastings’s True Worth

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In the end, after the drawing-room revelations that the publisher demanded, I enjoyed Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles m...
26 August 2020

Christie Exercises the Little Grey Cells

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Reading Agatha Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , for the first time, I was struck by how she used dialogue to give...
07 November 2019

The Real Legacy of He Walked by Night

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He Walked by Night didn’t influence The Third Man , but it definitely did influence American popular entertainment. To start with, it app...
30 September 2017

Pocketing the Bad Machinery Series

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I heartily enjoy John Allison’s Bad Machinery graphic novels, following a team of teen detectives in the fictional mid-sized city of Tackl...
29 August 2017

No Need to Visit Skull Castle

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Seeing Dirk Gringhuis’s 1964 Mystery at Skull Castle in David Maxine’s collection made me curious about it. Fortunately, David has alread...
17 July 2017

Airlocked-Room Mystery

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In 2002, M. T. Anderson began his novel Feed with the line, “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck....
25 August 2014

The Sheriff of Loving County

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This New York Times article about radioactive waste and a very small county in west Texas included the photo shown above. You might spot...
19 August 2014

J. A. Jance and the Oz Books

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I’ve been hearing about the mystery writer J. A. Jance’s appearance at the Moravian Bookshop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, so I decided to h...
17 July 2013

Rowling as a Mystery Writer All Along

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Last week’s revelation that J. K. Rowling has published a pseudonymous murder mystery sent folks back to the archives for clues they wished...
15 April 2013

The Mystery

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You might remember this photograph from 2007. That is Godson’s Brother, engrossed in a mystery. For their shared birthday I usually send...
10 April 2013

A Mystery with Not-So-Secret Identities

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A while back, I had the idea for a mystery story set in the world of mid-1900s American comics publishing. I’m still working on that, but ...
28 February 2013

The Lost Opportunity in Zero Dark Thirty

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In turning the evacuation of six American diplomats out of Teheran in 1979 into a Hollywood movie, Argo had to distort the historical eve...