Stories By Jem Bloomfield
Crime Fiction
Gentlemen and Players
February 15, 2025Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
Fiction Reviews
The Solution to History
February 10, 2025These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc...
Fiction Reviews
Who Didn’t Do It?
February 5, 2025The “golden age” of detective fiction, which began roughly with Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles,...
Fiction Reviews
Book of Hours
February 1, 2025Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...
Movies
Family Values
January 31, 2025Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
Mystery
The Key to the Case
January 24, 2025The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...
Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
January 6, 2025Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...
Television
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’
January 2, 2025The whole episode seemed to revolve around questions of perception and memory, and the way recognising...
Mystery
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Reichenbach Fall’
December 29, 2024Now, this is the premise of the episode. What it asks us to accept in order...
Theatre
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
December 25, 2024It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...