“Thirteen at Dinner”
First of all–yes, I borrowed the title from the original American title of Christie’s Lord Edgware Dies. The plot, however, is far more Queenian, as you’ll tell if you read it… I hope you’re all...
View ArticleAnother Game of Wits
“Ruby Red” “Damn all dying clues!” (This from a policeman, viz. Lt. Christopher McKee of the NYPD, whose job it is to investigate said clues, or any clues.) “That’s one way to put it,” murmured Mr....
View ArticleSolution Time (Let’s Try This Again)
OK, folks, I’m revealing the solution to “Ruby Red.” (I would have revealed it before, as promised, but Inurhadi correctly found one of the three major clues.) … Continue...
View ArticleColor Scheme
I’m not yet ready to post the story to which I referred before, but in the meantime… “Color Scheme” When Mr. Geoffrey Lord, of West 87th Street, New York City, was first asked to join one of the most...
View ArticleAnd Now for the Sequel…
Yes, indeed, my first sequel, this to “Color Scheme”… “The Unhinged Man” “A puzzle for you, Mr. Lord,” said Alice Little, the famed poetess. The Puzzlers, that select and secretive organization, was...
View ArticleSolution Time!
OK, folks, it’s time for the solution to “The Unhinged Man”… … Continue reading →
View ArticleAn Undignified Melodrama for My Bone of Contention
OK, folks, I’m in a bit of a quandary: I have a new Geoffrey Lord story, and I think it’s fairly decent, but it’s longer than any of the others I’ve posted, and I’m not sure if you’d all be … Continue...
View Article“For Every Evil Under the Sun…”
“Death in the Sun” a Geoffrey Lord tale The heat was oppressive that afternoon, cooking the sand and brazening the outstretched, squirming bodies such that they resembled brass sardines. One of the...
View Article“The Time Has Come…
…,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.” Well, the time has come for the solution to “Death in the Sun,” too–so here goes… …...
View ArticleThe Fourth Coffin
“…he would tell a story of mediaeval sorcery and, at the end, abruptly explain all the puzzles in the fashion of a detective story.” “This case he was going to talk about was rather special and...
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