Another Tuesday, another Lord Darcy story, in which Randall Garrett mixes magic and detection in an alternate-history Europe.
Continue reading#1343: Little Fictions – ‘A Case of Identity’ (1964) by Randall Garrett
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#1340: Little Fictions – ‘The Eyes Have It’ (1964) by Randall Garrett
Perhaps two decades a go, I read some, but not all, of the Lord Darcy series of stories by Randall Garrett, in which detection is augmented with magic. And I’ve been telling people they’re good ever since. So for Tuesdays this, and another as-yet-undetermined future, month let’s take this Fantasy Masterworks volume of the complete stories — 10 shorts, and the novel Too Many Magicians (1967) — and see how they stand up.
Continue reading#1337: The Tenniversary – Ten Things That Are Definitely, Definitely, Definitely Going to Happen
As we draw these “Yay, My Blog Has Lasted Ten Years!” celebrations to a close, the only sensible thing to do is to look ahead to the next decade, I guess.
Continue reading#1334: The Tenniversary – Ten Positive Side-Effects of Blogging
The Invisible Event has, as of yesterday, officially been online for ten years. Where does the time go? And when does the money start pouring in?
Continue reading#1331: The Tenniversary – Ten Things That Didn’t Pan Out as Intended
Man plans and God laughs, words which apply in life as in blogging. And, as The Invisible Event turns ten years old next week, I don’t want you thinking that I’m the acme of perfection and everything I’ve ever done — in my life and in blogging — has worked out exactly as intended.
Continue reading#1328: The Tenniversary – Ten Books That (Unwittingly) Shaped This Blog
On 18th August 2025, The Invisible Event will have been running for ten years. And while I’m not a big one for introspection — I read books, I write about those books, some people read what I’ve written, rinse, repeat — a decade feels like a notable achievement and so some introspection is going to be had, for today at least.
Continue reading#1325: Minor Felonies – Montgomery Bonbon: Sabotage at Sea (2025) by Alasdair Beckett-King [ill. Claire Powell]
It’s true that, by reading a lot of crime and detective fiction and trying to write three posts a week on that subject, I sometimes forget to just enjoy my reading. So thank heavens it’s time for another Alasdair Beckett-King novel, with Sabotage at Sea (2025) being the fourth in the Montgomery Bonbon corpus.
Continue reading#1322: Minor Felonies – Whale Done (2023) by Stuart Gibbs
I cannot remember how I stumbled across Stuart Gibbs’ Space Case (2014), but whatever combination of events brought it to my attention is to be thanked for the 11 books of his I’ve now read, eight of which are in the FunJungle corpus, which is very likely the best juvenile mystery series being written today.
Continue reading#1319: Minor Felonies – The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius [trans. Peter Graves 2017]
I’m not entirely sure what I expected from The Murderer’s Ape (2014) by Jakob Wegelius, but it wasn’t a Gulliver’s Travels (1726)-esque multinational adventure written by an intelligent gorilla. And while the book that results is in no way a bad thing, it’s also not really a murder mystery in the vein of what I’m typically after in these Minor Felonies posts.
Continue reading#1316: Minor Felonies – The Ring O’ Bells Mystery (1951) by Enid Blyton
A third mystery for Roger, Diana, Snubby, Loony, Barney, and Miranda, and, well, one that frankly makes me wonder if I’ll bother reading the remaining three books in this series.
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