Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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Crime Fiction
Lots in a Name
June 25, 2022Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
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Crime Fiction
Gentlemen and Players
June 19, 2022Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
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Fiction Reviews
The Solution to History
June 15, 2022These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc...
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Fiction Reviews
Who Didn’t Do It?
June 10, 2022The “golden age” of detective fiction, which began roughly with Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles,...
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Fiction Reviews
Book of Hours
June 8, 2022Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...
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Horror
Family Values
June 5, 2022Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Fiction Reviews
The Key to the Case
May 30, 2022The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
May 13, 2022Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’
May 10, 2022The whole episode seemed to revolve around questions of perception and memory, and the way recognising...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Reichenbach Fall’
May 4, 2022Now, this is the premise of the episode. What it asks us to accept in order...
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