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The Knox Decalogue

#817: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue: Legacy

July 27, 2021July 26, 2021 / JJ / 1 Comment

The Knox Decalogue: over 90 years since being laid down, what is its legacy?

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#814: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 10: Twins

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 / JJ / 12 Comments

Imagine it: years from now, you’ll be able to say to your descendants “I was there, I remember well the day Jim finally completed his rule-by-rule examination of the Knox Decalogue“.

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#811: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 9: The Watson

July 13, 2021December 15, 2021 / JJ / 2 Comments

The end of the Knox Decalogue is in sight! This week it’s Watsons, next week it’s Twins, and then — oh no! — there’s a final Tuesday in the month that I have to fill with something. A flashy dance routine, perhaps?

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#808: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 8: Declaration of Clues

July 6, 2021July 5, 2021 / JJ / 14 Comments

Twenty months ago I set out to examine each of the ten rules in Ronald Knox’s detective fiction decalogue in laborious detail; this month, that project will finally be completed. Then I can finally return to The Criminous Alphabet, eh?

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#726: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 7: The Detective-as-Criminal

November 24, 2020November 23, 2020 / JJ / 14 Comments

I hope I’ll finish this undertaking before another year passes, but with the end of November upon us this is my last post on the Knox Decalogue for this year. So, what have we got?

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#723: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 6: No Accidents

November 17, 2020November 16, 2020 / JJ / 8 Comments

Okay, let’s pick up the next rule from Monsignor Knox.

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#720: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 5: No Chinamen

November 10, 2020November 9, 2020 / JJ / 23 Comments

Okay, now we get down to it, the one rule of Ronald Knox’s Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction that people actually know. Or think they do.

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#717: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 4: Undiscovered Poisons

November 3, 2020November 2, 2020 / JJ / 37 Comments

It was, by pure chance, this time last year that I started a series of posts examining Ronald Knox’s Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction rule-by-rule and, well, we’re back to continue what I started. Woo?

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 10: Genre and Detective Fiction [w’ Ryan O’Neill]

August 1, 2020July 31, 2020 / JJ / 29 Comments

In GAD We Trust

A final (for now) podcast episode before I head off on hiatus, this time discussing the idea of genre with author Ryan O’Neill.

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#598: Reflections on Detection – The Knox Decalogue 3: Secret Passages

November 26, 2019July 27, 2021 / JJ / 10 Comments

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For the final time this year, then, let’s take another dive into one of Monsignor Knox’s detective fiction decalogue rules.

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