#Holmesian deduction

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Mr Gaiman !

Am I right if I think that you’re laughing at us right now with all of our theories about Good Omens season 2 ?

Have a lovely day !

Sometimes I smile and shake my head, sometimes I want to congratulate someone on their elegant Holmesian deduction, whether right or wrong.

[loveexpelrevolt]

How’d you know about me? Well, I used my Holmesian powers of journalistic deduction. 

JAMES LANCE as TRENT CRIMM Ted Lasso 3.06 | Sunflowers

[helebing]

I used my Holmesian powers of journalistic deduction. … I saw you kissing a guy outside Sam’s restaurant.

Ted Lasso: Trent Crimm

[carlyraejepsans]

What is the most poorly implemented part of Sans’ “smart” characterization? In my opinion, the facial expressions. Being able to deduct a rough understanding of LOADing using scientific instruments vs. being able to tell a precise amount of loops just by looking at you is where things become Holmesian to me.

idk he's a videogame character defined by his ability to cheat and exploit details. I don't really question this sort of stuff, you have to roll with the story sometimes

[no-side-us]

Reading the second chapter of A Study in Scarlet, and it's funny that the first Sherlock Holmes mystery is technically about Sherlock Holmes himself, with Watson taking the lead as the detective. Who is this man? What does he do for a living? Why do so many different people come see him? So on and so on.

Watson begins his own investigation. He observes Holmes, notes down information about him from his appearance to his (infamous) gaps in general knowledge to how delicate his hands are:

...yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments.

He even makes what I think is a very intuitive deduction when he considers the possibility that Holmes is taking drugs:

On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.

Watson dismisses the idea at first, but he's right! Holmes is taking a narcotic! In fact, the deduction is almost Holmesian in how he likely has experience as a doctor seeing people on drugs, and applies that to this observation.

It's all very impressive work from Watson in my opinion, but he ultimately can't draw any conclusions from it. Presumably so when Holmes' talents become more visible in the coming chapters we can recognize the contrast between the abilities of the average, well-studied man, aka our POV character Watson, and the impressive skills of one Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Nonetheless, I think it also helps show how Watson and Holmes eventually get along so well. They both have an investigative streak in them! They like mysteries! Sure, Holmes prefers real ones:

Sensational Literature.—Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.

And Watson's more of a fiction reader:

You remind me of Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin. "Have you read Gaboriau's works?" I asked. "Does Lecoq come up to your idea of a detective?"

But it's something they have in common! It's neat seeing all these characterizing moments that work to make their partnership so special.

[gottagobackintime]

Okay now I'm picturing Colin and Trent meeting up for drinks every few weeks (the other players think he's writing the whole book on him when which is confusing because ??? colin?? but it's really because neither of them have any other gay friends and they like to bond) and one day the penny drops and Colin's like "Oh my god you fancy ted a little don't you?!" and Trent's ears go pink and he almost throws a beer bottle at him

It would be so funny to get a kind of reprise of the "why would Zava write a book about Trent Crimm?!" scene. And Trent and Colin are like??? "We're just hanging out???"

I would love to see them meet up outside of work and hang. Imagine Colin introducing Michael to Trent. Having a friend meet your boyfriend and actually being able to introduce him as your boyfriend!

And then, every time Colin (or Trent) brings up Ted, Trent starts smiling, like not a full on, huge smile, but smiling enough that Colin starts to get confused. Like sure, he likes Ted but they were literally talking about something weird Ted had done that day or something like that. And Trent is smiling as if it's a fond memory. And then, as you say he finally realises, because he sees Trent smiling like that when he actually looks at Ted too. And he brings it up. Trent tries to deny it but he knows that he can't hide it, if even Colin picked up on it. He asks how he knew, and then we get Colin's version of " I used my Holmesian powers of journalistic deduction." but then he's like "You keep smiling when you look at him, even when he can't see you". Colin doesn't get it at all, because Ted is not his type but he's still like "good for you". Then he talks about it with Michael and Michael's like "No, I can see it. The mustasch is kind of cute to be honest" and Colin just ??? "Who are you people???"

[eirinstiva]

Raffles: Gentleman thief and... detective?

As always, my dear friend Bunny Manders sent the first part of To Catch a Thief, story where Raffles is thinking about a new gentleman thief in town (!)

“Suppose I have solved it,” observed Raffles, cracking a walnut in his palm. “How could you?” I asked, without believing for an instant that he had. “I have been taking the Morning Post for some time now.”

Investigating through the newspapers is a good idea, Raffles. Bunny is a bit tipsy but Raffles has a very mean holmesian moment:

“That’s because you’ve neither observation nor imagination, Bunny—and yet you try to write! Well, you wouldn’t think it, but I have a fairly complete list of the people who were at the various functions under cover of which these different little coups were brought off.”

The way he explain his deduction, how he gathered information and the idea of using cards from other people as a fast costume is something that makes me thinks of Sherlock Holmes if he was a criminal. Raffles could be a wonderful detective considering his charm and ability to move in social gatherings, a characteristic that helps a lot in investigation.

This story in particular makes me think more about a "Holmes versus Raffles" story or "Holmes and Raffles" story. Obviously with Watson and Bunny, the other part of their sets.

[twistedtummies2]

Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes - Number 3

Welcome to A Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes! During this month-long event, I’ve been counting down my Top 31 Favorite Fictional Detectives, from movies, television, literature, video games, and more!

We’ve reached the Top 3 of the countdown!

SLEUTH-OF-THE-DAY’S QUOTE: “It is the brain, the little grey cells, on which one must rely.”

Number 3 is…Hercule Poirot.

Earlier in the countdown, I spoke of Agatha Christie – a woman many consider the greatest mystery writer of all time – and one of her two most popular creations, Miss Marple. I mentioned then that another of her characters would appear later in the list. Well, ladies and gentlemen, now is the time: this is Christie’s other most popular character, if not her most popular PERIOD, Hercule Poirot. Poirot is arguably the definitive example of the “Gentleman Detective.” Inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin, the character initially started off very much in the Holmesian vein, in terms of personality and methods. Very quickly, however, he began to evolve into something else entirely, and ultimately became a figure who easily rivaled Conan Doyle’s famous creation, stepping out of the shadow of past inspirations to stand on his own.

Hercule Poirot is also an example of the classic “unlikely detective,” much as Miss Marple would be. (Poirot predated her by at least ten years.) However, he is drastically different in many ways. For one thing, there is their core philosophy: Miss Marple is essentially a very cynical character. Underneath her kindly and humble demeanor, she’s a jaded lady who is no longer surprised by horror and death, having seen so much of it. Poirot, however, is sort of a romantic idealist at heart; he believes that good is something to be rewarded, evil something to be punished, and feels that crime is something out of the ordinary. Of all things, it reminds me of the difference between two famous superheroes: Batman and Superman. Batman is someone who feels crime is commonplace and tries to fight against it, while Superman feels people are inherently good and tries to uphold it. Poirot is a small, rather foppish fellow; obsessively neat and tidy, with a fastidiously-tended moustache, who dresses in the finest of fashions and makes a point of keeping good hygiene prime in his mind. Poirot is indicated to have something like OCD (something later adaptations would latch onto with a passion), being highly meticulous, at times even to a fault, and obsessing over making sure everything in his life is neatly arranged and organized. While Sherlock Holmes typically relies on deductive reasoning and physical evidence to solve capers, Poirot is arguably the first proper criminal profiler in literary history: he looks at a scene and determines what doesn’t fit the picture, his obsessive persona quickly finding incongruities, and then tries to figure out the kind of person who would commit these crimes, and why they would do it. He often uses bluff and deception to outwit his opponents; much like Columbo would do many years later, his demeanor is sometimes his greatest weapon, as folks rarely feel threatened by this rather stuffy Belgian with an egg-shaped head, and thus underestimate him entirely.

The behind-the-scenes relationship Christie had with Poirot was stormy, to say the least. Even as the character evolved, and his popularity swelled, Christie grew increasingly dissatisfied with her own creation. She was once quoted as saying she had come to see Poirot as an “egocentric little creep,” and that she only continued writing for him because he was popular with the readers. Much like Conan Doyle had tried to do in the past with Holmes, Christie eventually decided to kill off her character…but unlike Conan Doyle, she actually succeeded in keeping him dead! The final novel, “Curtains,” was highly received, and Poirot’s literary death so rocked the world, the New York Times even published an obituary: to date the first and only time the prestigious news agency did so for a fictional character.

Of course, this was not the end for Hercule Poirot. By the time Christie killed him off, he was already a well-known and adapted character, appearing on radio played by Orson Welles, and on film in what many argue is one of the greatest mystery movies ever made: the 1974 adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express.” There he was played by Albert Finney. Later actors to portray the character have included Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Alfred Molina, Jason Alexander, John Malkovich (who was AWFUL in the role, for the record), and, most recently, Kenneth Branagh. The character was also one of the titular co-stars of the anime “Agatha Christie’s Great Detectives Poirot & Marple,” which I spoke of earlier in the countdown.

By far the most successful onscreen portrayal of the character, and the one most people (myself included) consider the definitive take on the Belgian gentleman detective, is David Suchet (pictured here). His was the star of a very long-running TV series simply titled “Poirot.” The series initially started out as a straightforward adaptation of all of Christie’s Poirot stories, but – as time went on – it began to take more liberties with the source material, and added a few new dimensions to the detective by emphasizing elements of his personality that Christie had only briefly brushed the surface of in her work. Whether you love Suchet, the books, or any of the other great interpretations of Poirot most, it’s clear that “the little grey cells” continue to serve this fellow well.

Tomorrow, we’ll feature our penultimate gumshoe, with Number 2!

CLUE: “I Am Vengeance.”

[polikszena]

“Well, I used my Holmesian powers of journalistic deduction.”

Colin Hughes and Trent Crimm in Ted Lasso S03E06

[moon0fairy]

Ted Lasso 3x06 commentary !!!!!

• very sad atmosphere oh boii ok so we‘re already in Amsterdam

• Jan Maas speaking dutch!!

• „this is a pretend conversation. You‘re a pretend person with a pretend job. And I‘m having a really hard time pretending to give a shit.“ and Jan‘s smile hsksks

• NIGHT OUT IN AMSTERDAM

• JACK AND KEELEY FLYING TO NORWAY TO SEE THE NORTHERN LIGHTS DAMN SAPPHICS REALLY DO MOVE FAST

• uhhh damn Rebecca that was subtle commentary to Roy👀

• „no curfew tonight“ and Beards eyes getting subtly bigger

• Dani I love you

• Roy is in a biig mood

• JAMIE KNOWS HIS HISTORY FACTS (someone has energy)

• not Rebecca going on the bike side of the road (i don‘t know the right term in english)

• well damn ….

• bike lane thank you unknown man

• Ted texting Rebecca but she lost her phone so he spends the whole night with Trent instead-

• „you know I wanna try something new“ like going to a gay bar-

• TRENT CRIMM I SAW YOU

• Trent I would go to every museum with you

• higgins don‘t say that

• Jan suggesting a club with a lot of women and Colins saying immediately afterwards that he can’t make it and Trent looking up (I‘m in pain)

• sipping his tea because he knows the tea👀

• that boat house looks very comfy (funf fact: I actually always dreamt about living on a boat like this)

• ohhhh we‘re getting Ted high??

• Get Dani his tulips🥺🥺🥺

• Colin sneaking out👀

• THE LEOPARD SHOES, Detective Trent mode activated

• He seems nice and I feel like they stray away more and more from Ted and Rebecca idea as a couple

• Ted, if you don‘t want that… I mean I could… I would drink it for you

•. Colin storyline here we go

• Trent showing up behind him I‘m gonna pass out

• nooo Colin🥺🥺🥺

• oop-

• Roy doesn‘t know how to ride a bike either?????

• damn Roy that was a lot opening up

• we really thought we‘re getting a romantic „Ted teaching Trent how to ride a bike“ but we‘re getting Roy and Jamie instead-?

• Trent coming out story I can‘t believe this is actually happening omg

• trying not to tear up challenge failed

• „ I used my Holmesian powers of journalistic deduction“

• Ted going to a Van gogh exhibition oh no more tears incoming (apparently for Ted too)

• oh no they‘re still arguing over food?😭😭

• Isaac is going through it

• Jamie opening up too and Roy apologizing to him

• not the American bar😭 (homesickness? Foreshadowing that he will go to america again in the end?)

• oh no the tea is kicking in

• love the triangle history

• pillow fight in the lobby, Trent and Colin enjoying the gay club, Roy and Jamie seeing a windmill, this is amazing

• That foot massage was uhm, no comment (good for you Rebecca)

• Beard apparently had a good night🥴

• oh so he experienced a placebo effect

• Triangles to try angels jdksks

• Coling touching Trents arm oh they‘re besties now 🥺

10/10 episode no further comment needed

[leonawriter]

I pretty much just zoomed through the London arc because I enjoyed it so much - one of those cases where it still holds up no matter what.

The fact that it takes place set in somewhere I know so well, with so many of the locations making me go "I know that place! I've been there!" or "I've gone past there!" and the inclusion of the Wimbledon Tennis, which I actually sort of attended once when I was still doing first aid (I'd love to go back properly one year), and even just Heathrow, which is near to where I live!

It's fun to see the characters' reactions to the weird shapes and the history of the buildings in the capital. The Gherkin! The Elephant and Castle! St Bride's! The Millennium Eye, which by this point is iconic and has been used as a landmark countless times, and as the centre point of the New Year's fireworks.

Last time I came back from London, I saw the sun setting in the middle of the Eye, even.

The case itself is one of the best, too - the twists and turns don't let up, the suspense is kept up, the switches between Conan and Shinichi, and the code itself just kept me reading because there's hardly any sense of "and now since it's the next chapter, we need to remind you what's happened before" - since it takes place over a couple or so days and they need to remind themselves what the code says, and they're sometimes wrong, it all happens naturally!

Then there's the way that tennis isn't just the setting. No, just like with football and baseball before, Gosho goes into the details of what makes a match good, and what makes it exciting. How he can use a game to give the protagonists clues, and how the players can really show their abilities and worth in a way that's keeping us thinking "that's a damn good player" but not sending it to the realm of "but I doubt anyone alive could be that good."

The player we're meant to be following is Minerva, but y'know, the fact that her rival in this case who wants Minerva to play to the best of her ability is "Demeter Bauer," a black woman, made me think of Serena Williams, someone who's also Just That Damn Good.

And then there's the confession scene, which... is so masterfully done?

It's like, any time I think "maybe I could imagine branching out and imagining one or the other of Shinichi and Ran with other people" canon comes and whacks me around the head, because. I MEAN.

"You really are a troublesome, tough case! When it's the heart of the woman one loves, how can I deduce that accurately?!"

It's just... it ties in with the Holmesian side of Shinichi (it's a reference to one of the things he says) but it's also the difference and divide between deduction as a logical aspect and love as an emotional aspect. Holmes kept himself separate from love, as is pointed out in the case, but Shinichi? Doesn't do that. He's clearly invested in also letting himself experience love, and be emotional.

And of course where deduction is logic, you can't logically deduce something emotion-based, because emotion is illogical. People still feel things no matter how unreliable the evidence is. Misunderstandings and miscommunications happen, making people do things they'd never do otherwise.

I also love the case (ha) for how Shinichi once again comes up with another iconic line in "Zero [love, in tennis terms] is where everything starts! Nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there! Nothing would ever be achieved!"

If anything, I feel like those are words we need to remember and remind ourselves of more often. That it doesn't matter how far you fall, or how "bad" you are - you have to start at somewhere, or you won't improve.

And that goes for relationships as well - that you can always start over. Nothing is ever truly "finished with" if you want to start again at "love."

[bakerstreetbabble]

Let's talk about Watson...

One of the great things about Elementary and Sherlock, and even the Guy Ritchie films, is that the character of Watson has finally broken out of the Nigel Bruce mold.  Not to completely denigrate Nigel Bruce's contribution to Holmesian film history, but he made the stereotype of Watson as an old bumbler the standard for an awfully long time.  Watson ended up being a comic figure, almost the polar opposite of the brilliant figure of Sherlock Holmes.  But now we have Jude Law--brave, intelligent, handsome; we have Lucy Liu--a female twist on the character, but a brilliant detective in her own right; and possibly the best actor to ever play Watson, Martin Freeman, whose depth and nuance are really astounding.

And it's more than simply casting fine actors as Watson; the balance of Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion has been restored.  In the canon, Watson is an essential element of almost all of the cases, and Holmes trusts him completely.  There is a mutual admiration between the characters that is wonderful. Not that Watson isn't sometimes critical of Holmes, though...I think the recent versions mentioned above have all grappled with Watson's frustration with Holmes.  Sherlock in particular has explored a very complex give and take between Holmes and Watson, wherein John becomes devoted to Sherlock as his friend, but is sometimes very angry with his callousness and his inhumanity.  In Elementary as well, Lucy Liu's Joan Watson can be highly critical of Sherlock, while he can be quite cruel to her at times; but the mutual admiration and trust are always there.  Jude Law's Watson seems to have a short fuse when it comes to Holmes and his idiosyncrasies, but he and Holmes still seem to respect each other.

After all, what do we know about Watson from the Conan Doyle stories? (We don't really know his middle name, but that's a subject for another time...) We know he was an army doctor, wounded in battle (in either the shoulder or the knee, or perhaps both.)  We know Holmes trusts him completely, so much that when the King of Bohemia suggests in "A Scandal in Bohemia" that he would rather talk to Holmes alone, Holmes says, "It is both or none."  We know that Watson is continually amazed at his friend's deductions; however, Watson never seems to have any problem following Holmes in his reasoning, and he certainly does an excellent job of recording those deductions for posterity.  We know that the two men are close enough friends that, even after the good doctor gets married, he still spends a considerable amount of time with Holmes, and always seems ready to drop everything to accompany him on cases.  And when it comes to the much publicized issue of Holmes's use of cocaine, Dr. Watson does not hesitate to make his displeasure known to the detective.  So it makes sense that portrayals of Watson on film and TV shouldn't distill the character down to a bit of comic relief.

I realize there have been other actors in the past who haven't followed Nigel Bruce's lead in their portrayals of Dr. Watson.  David Burke, the first Watson in the Granada TV series which featured Jeremy Brett as Holmes, was a particular favorite of mine.  But Brett's Holmes was so brilliant, I often thought Burke, and Edward Hardwicke, who replaced him, were often overshadowed a bit.  The lovely thing that's happened in the recent film and TV incarnations of Sherlock Holmes and Watson is that Watson, be it John or Joan, has emerged from Holmes's shadow, and gotten a fair share of the limelight. And interestingly enough, when Watson gets his (her) share of that light, Holmes shines all the brighter.

Nigel Bruce

Jude Law

Martin Freeman

Lucy Liu

[thealogie]

The special was good actually on account of them implying that the doctor had something going on with Harry Houdini (<- follower who is slightly too into Sherlock Holmes stuff)

Totally agree. Also when he did a little holmesian deduction? Mwah chef’s kiss

[olivereactsaboutgarbage]

Higurashi When They Cry - Watanagashi Chapter 11

New year, new schedule. I realized "posting daily until doing so is unsustainable and then taking very long breaks" isn't actually faster than the slow and steady approach. Turtles were right all along, though I'm not sure how many of them were. That's why from now on my new schedule is going to be Two Posts A Week. Yes. Yes yes.

Speaking of the weak, Keiichi and Rena. They're sleepy. Mion, meanwhile, isn't even present. Keiichi thinks Mion might not exist.

At school, everyone is taking the disappearance of some Toddlers very seriously. How strange. Unfortunately, for school to be normal, Mion would have to exist. It all sucks for everyone.

Keiichi and Rena try to have a Lunch Arc, but they flub it because of the writer's strike, so I'm not even going to dignify it with a detailed analysis.

Rena decides to shift gears and give Keiichi secondhand Women Exposition instead. Keiichi thinks the exposition sounds wrong and bad, and Rena agrees, so they decide to solidify the Watanagashi arc of Higurashi as one all about people using the wrong sinks out of an inflated sense of superiority.

the second half of this sentence is not what the first half of this sentence led me to expect

Rena reveals that the Toddlers had been in the middle of a culinary project which they left half-unfinished.

Dumb Fuck!

Seeing Rena activate Detective Mode is awesome though. She really IS like one of those young girls who can read the blue text. Now we just need Keiichi to kick his "guy whose text is often blue" quotient up a notch.

Rena says that Toddler 01 is so inferior to Toddler 02 that she even sucks more at garbage cans. Fascinating.

Wow! I'm learning so much from reading Higurashi!

Also wow, I just noticed, she is really killer at reading the blue text. Um, no pun intended I guess.

Rena reveals the final ace up her sleeve: The Toddlers didn't have any soy sauce.

i wish i lived in hinamizawa, i could get so much free soy sauce

and bread pudding, maybe

Rena does her Sherlock Holmesian monologue where she says it was all the malicious work of a soy sauce saboteur. "Who was the saboteur?" asks Keiichi. "lol idk anyways acab" says Rena, and leaves.

Keiichi also leaves, and he and Rena go to the same place, and it's a cop place. More specifically it's the location Ooishi happens to be in, which is Keiichi's house he sleeps at every day. Keiichi decides to plant some death flags and then make Rena leave.

what a fucking nightmare person

Ooishi reveals that the mayor had hemorrhoids. Wow, that reminds me of my favorite meme song!

Keiichi makes a deduction and then gets immediate amnesia. Classic Keiichi.

Keiichi is confused about where Shion's awesome mayor incident fits into the mayor's busy schedule. He's really confused and possibly about to explode.

Ooishi asks what the big deal was with the temple, and Keiichi is like "Um, literally nothing?" and then curses his own bad habit of revealing information. Yes, the bad habit which he has: revealing information.

Hmm I don't like that Ooishi keeps saying things like "Everyone who went in is being sacrificed, y'know?" and "I had no choice but to ask you, Keiichi, since you went in there, y'know?" Is there going to be a dramatic Shion death reveal?

Oh. The answer was yes, five seconds after I asked. By which I guess I just mean "Ah, Keiichi finally noticed."

Oh, the NEXT day? Like RIGHT after?

Ah, I guess all Keiichi's intimate phone conversations must not have happened then. That. Seems true. Yes.

Oh, that's an awesome trick. He could use that to acquire more piss.

Lol

Anyway I don't have the slightest inkling what's going on. THIS is the arc that's supposed to be easier to figure out than the Rena one? How messed up were the events of the Rena one, then?!

Keiichi screams so hard the scene transitions, and now he's waiting for the obligatory Shion section of this chapter.

Ah yes, the extremely real ladder incident.

Anyway, the obligatory Shion section of this chapter occurs.

Shion immediately learns that Keiichi is home alone.

Classic Keiichi.

Keiichi wants to ask Shion if the Toddlers are okay, but he gets scared that what she says will make him scared, so he asks Shion if the mayor is okay and she says "No," and he gets scared.

String music??? Is playing??? What is this, Umineko?

me when i'm listening to someone sobbing

You should probably have doubts my dude

These twerps really are two peas in a pod huh. That's scary.

Shion is scared of Keiichi again. Keiichi tells her to tell him a longer mayor story so he gets less confused and doesn't explode in the future.

Ah but Shion doesn't live in Hinamizawa. Are Shion and Mion Parent Trapping REALLY REALLY HARD with ultra commitment to the bit? That'd be extremely abnormal.

Unfortunately, Keiichi relatable moments. Um, minus the part where he's having a phone conversation with a crying person. That's categorically not a thing I do, for several reasons. Um, anyways.

Shion enters Comedy Mode and brings the obligatory Shion section of this chapter to a close.

Meanwhile, in Side Story Land...

Isn't that the backstory of that trans girl from that fighting game? I dunno, I don't play games from genres that SUCK.

Allegedly, Mion has a tattoo covering her entire back. Bah, modern media, always with the female characters whose backs are covered in tattoos. One day in the name of gender equality I'll do that to a male character. ...Actually, that might already exist and be called Yakuza. I dunno, I don't play games from series that SUCK.

It would be really fucked up if Ooishi was just completely lying his ass off about Shion having been gone for days, but actually she was just chillin' the entire time. I don't think that's what's happening but it would be fucked up. Ooishi's mahjong buddies seem to be his devout followers also, unless that's part of the rules. I dunno, I don't play games that SUCK.

[paxesoterica]

So, I'd heard Undead Murder Farce was pretty good, but actually watching the first 5 episodes was something else: turns out a show about supernatural detectives, two of whom are constantly wisecracking about how one of them is a decapitated head, solving monster murder mysteries with Holmesian deduction skills (and punching) in Victorian-era Europe is very much my jam. Hee.

[storyxonline]

Release Day Book Review: Broadway Butchery (Memento Mori #3) by C.S. Poe

Reviewed by Sadonna   TITLE:  Broadway Butchery SERIES:  Memento Mori AUTHOR:  C.S. Poe PUBLISHER:  Emporium Press LENGTH:  311 pages RELEASE DATE:  June 22, 2023 BLURB: The Cold Case Squad of the NYPD is overworked, understaffed, but receiving great press due to star detective Everett Larkin. His uncanny memory and Holmesian-like skills of deduction have already led to the capture of one serial…