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…
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…
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…