Stories By Jem Bloomfield
Fiction Reviews
The Right Side of the Tracks
June 26, 2026Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
June 19, 2026Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
Fiction Reviews
Gentlemen and Players
June 13, 2026Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
Fiction Reviews
The Solution to History
June 7, 2026These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc...
Fiction Reviews
Who Didn’t Do It?
June 2, 2026The “golden age” of detective fiction, which began roughly with Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles,...
Fiction Reviews
Book of Hours
May 30, 2026Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...
Movies
Family Values
May 27, 2026Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
Mystery
The Key to the Case
May 22, 2026The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...

Television
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
May 5, 2026Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...

Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’
May 2, 2026The whole episode seemed to revolve around questions of perception and memory, and the way recognising...






