I’ve been moved of late to give some thought as to what my favourite examples of my favourite subgenre of detective fiction could possibly be. And I’m finally willing to commit — so here are, for today at least, my ten favourite impossible crimes in fiction.
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We’ve all wanted to solve a ‘footprints in the sand/snow/dust’ mystery, right? Well, here’s your chance…
Continue readingA shorter mystery from The Book of Clues (1984) from the excellent John Sladek, and pay attention to the picture this week…
Continue readingAnother week, another mini-mystery from the pen of one of the genre’s great lost names.
Continue readingI’ve said before that detective fiction lost a fine proponent of the form when John Sladek, after two novels and a handful of stories, abandoned the genre in favour of SF. Except, well, he didn’t quite abandon it altogether…
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In the back of my mind when I started The Invisible Event was the idea that exactly half of what I’d post about would feature impossible crimes, locked room mysteries, and/or miracle problems — and although this proportion started an irreversible slide after the first 500 or so posts, the impossible crime remains my first love.
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The time has come again for some nerdy Golden Age Detection podcasting, and James Scott Byrnside is here to oblige with a discussion about some of the tropes we know and love from GAD fiction
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