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Agatha Christie Festival 2024!

Every year, on the week of Agatha Christie's birthday, a festival is held in Torquay, her birthplace, to celebrate her life and works. There's a great variety of events, centring around talks on Christie-related topics, but also featuring plays, tours, and murder mystery events. This year, I attended it for the first time! I've always been put off by the distance, but it was very much worth making the trip. I started things off by watching the Peter Ustinov Evil Under the Sun for…

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17 September, 2024
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Bodies From the Library 2024, and some London book-hunting

A few days ago, on June 1st, I went to Bodies From the Library for the second time. In case you're not familiar, Bodies From the Library is a conference hosted each year at the British Library, dedicated to classic detective fiction. This year's talks featured live sound effects, an abundance of pierrots and harlequins, enough academic mysteries to fill several blackboards, more Edmund Crispin and historic true-crime facts than would fit in 30 minutes, some Miss Marple myths firmly busted, a few classic…

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3 June, 2024
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The Case of the Thinky Game Jam!

When I began this blog, I'd intended to write about detective games as well as books and short stories. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get round to it in 2023, but I hope to make up for this in 2024! I'll make up for it a bit right now by introducing you to a raft of new short, mostly free, detective games made by small teams or even a single person. Many of them are even playable within your web browser. I don't know…

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8 January, 2024
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Blog Update and Bodies From The Library

If anyone has been paying attention (unlikely), they will have noticed the blog schedule claims I will post "every Sunday", and that not only have the posts been going up on Mondays, they've also been going up only every other week. In short, I decided to start this blog at almost the exact same time as a bunch of life events happened, cutting into my free time. The good news is that one of those events should eventually result in me having space for…

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25 June, 2023
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Welcome to the blog!

Hello everyone, I'm Velleic, an avid reader of crime fiction, particularly of the Classic, clue-based sort. Over the past few years I've built up a backlog of thoughts and even full reviews of some of the books I've read, and I've decided it's high time to post them. I'm starting with one book from the pre-Golden Age of Mystery and one book from a decade and a half ago, but expect things from the 1930s/1940s soon. Posting schedule-wise, I'm going to try and post…

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1 May, 2023