#historical detective series

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"Traja pátrači", "Nesvätá trojica", "Tří tajtrlíci", "Terrible trio" alebo notár Matej Barbarič, kapitán Joachim Stein a seržant (na začiatku knihy kaprál) Bohdan Jaroš z jedinej Ďurovej nefantasy série. Autor - Martina "Agama" Zrostlíková

[heretherebedork]

Love Leads (Kidnap OST)

Here me out... how do I get GMMTV to make a historical detective BL?

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adventures of young detectives | s01e18

Chinese Drama - 2023, 20 episodes  

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may I also bring this contribution as you wander down the enstars rabbit hole (it's enstars characters and their supposed crimes)

OP I appreciate you so much, but I fear that you are trying to kill me? Just -

Just a few questions.....

- Why are Switch and the seniors of Ryuseitai and Wataru??? on kidnapping?? (wait, did he kidnap Hokuto is that it?) - Wait, what did Tetora and Sora DO? - Midori's in attempted murder?????? WHY??? - What's with forgery?? Why's that on there? Why am I questioning forgery when sexual harassment and murder are RIGHT there??? - Yeah, I still can't believe there's a literal idol duo who is also a mob group.... - "tried to break the windows with an iron pipe" what - of course Hokuto has the ultra specific one (I love him so much. Rich airhead princess to me, so far anyway). - Bullying for Subaru NO what have you DONE starshine boy??? - and at this point I've given up on getting mentally tortured by the others

I am eternally grateful for this list. Why did it have to exist? OP, come back here and let's just talk - actually. No, I desperately want to sit down with the writers and ask what they've experienced to do this.

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Fun Facts About “God’s Truth”

Good morning, all ya’all! I meant to post more this month, but got bogged down by various WIPs. Anyway, on May 17, the “Detectives, Sleuths & Nosy Neighbors” anthology by Inkd Publishing released. It featured my historical crime story, “God’s Truth.” It is the seventh story in the Lady Sheriff Series. If you’re interested in buy the anthology, you can do so here. Whenever a story of mine is published, I like to do a Fun Facts post on what inspired the story and some behind the scenes tidbits about it.

As mentioned above, “God’s Truth” is the seventh story in the Lady Sheriff Series. While you can pick up any of them and read a good story, I did write them in a certain order. But many of them have been published out of order, and a few who haven’t sold at all. You never know what an editor/the readers might be interested in. Two that haven’t sold have been used for my current novel, and two I still hope to place somewhere.

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned how various historical women were the inspiration for Sheriff Claire Williams (Lillian Holley, Florence Shoemaker Thompson, Jennie Walker). Today I want to shine a light on Maud Collins, who was the first female sheriff of Ohio. A mother of five, she had worked alongside her husband as a jail matron, while he served as sheriff. She was appointed through Widow’s Succession, after the murder of her husband, and fulfilled the remainder of his term. Sheriff Collins took a more active approach to her job, like delivering prisoners to the state penitentiary to conducting several murder investigations. In 1926, she ran for sheriff for herself and won, beating out two male candidates. She served until 1930.

“God’s Truth” features two characters, who are hobos. During the Great Depression, many people were out of work and lost their livelihoods. Some became hobos, they lived in shanty towns or small encampments, they road the rails, and did odd jobs to barter for food. My grandmother, who was a teenager in the early 1930s, remembered hobos calling. Her parents fed whoever visited. If my great-grandfather was home, their visitor was welcomed inside for a meal and he’d talk with them, make them feel at home. If my great-grandfather wasn’t home, my great-grandmother would serve their visitor on the back porch. My grandmother recalled that a cat was drawn on their fence, which was a sign to other hobos that a kind lady lived their and people were welcome. This family tale found its way into this story.

When the Great Depression began, Herbert Hoover was president and he received the public’s scorn for the hard times everyone was facing. In 1928, there had been a campaign promise made that there would be “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” Obviously, this didn’t happen. Well, his opponents used this against him in the 1932 election and the damage was done, and he’d live in the shadow of his successor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Shanty towns were called Hoovervilles, an automobile with a horse hitched to it was called Hoover Wagon, newspapers used as blankets were called Hoover Blankets. What was forgotten about Herbert Hoover is that after both world wars, Hoover came to Poland’s aid and organizes relief efforts that saved hundreds of thousands of Polish children’s lives. Following WWII, when Poland was more or less handed over to the Soviet Union in 1945/1946, Herbert Hoover advocated for their freedom. He may have been disliked in America, but in Poland, Herbert Hoover was a hero.

One of the characters in my story is named Howard Chase. I think when I was writing “God’s Truth” I was currently binging “Only Murders in the Building.” In the show, there is a character named Howard Morris, portrayed by the brilliant Michael Cyril Creighton. So, I kind of picture the Howard in my story looking like the Howard in the show.

The town gossip, Iva Kent, has been mentioned in many of the Lady Sheriff stories. She finally makes a cameo debut in “God’s Truth.” I had Ellen Corby, of “The Waltons” in mind when I wrote her.

Until next time!

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AHHHHHH! This series is definitely going on my auto-buy list!

Lavender House, by Lev AC Rosen | The Bell in the Fog, by Lev AC Rosen

Review coming soon!

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i think my biggest beef with "Miss Scarlet and the Duke" is just the general awareness of the characters. I get that the entire point of the show is about a lady detective attempting to make her way in a man's world and having to fight her way through sexism prejudice and injustice for every single victory she claims, but there's a level of... modernity? to a lot of the issues addressed that just... doesn't quite flow with the setting and the rest of the writing, imho.

like--the female characters talk about how they can't do anything of importance because they're women, the gay characters talk about how they're 'outcasts of society' and 'marked for life' because of their sexuality, the misogynist male characters flaunt their male privilege over everyone, loudly, with extreme awareness. idk, it all just seems very much like inflicting modern views and opinions onto historical characters who couldn't possibly have the context to actually hold those views?

and don't get me wrong, I am not saying that these issues didn't exist in that time period. they did, and they were very real, and the people who faced them really did have to struggle in ways we'll not fully understand because we enjoy so much freedom today that had to be hard-won by previous generations. but there... was a bit of balance, I think, in a lot of ways? for instance, women weren't allowed to hold political power, but they had enormous social power. and I think a lot of that is overlooked and glossed-over in order to make a big loud statement about historical sexism and give a lot of snappy dialogue about how 'it's a man's world' and 'how DARE a woman do ANYTHING'.

and I say all this with caveats, too, because I just blazed through all of season 1 in two days, and I actually am enjoying the show! Eliza and William are both really fun characters, and I love their dynamic with one another! there's a lot of good stuff too in respect to how neither of them are fully clear-cut people with simplistic moral and ethical codes, they're not cardboard cut-outs but actual characters, and I appreciate that. and I appreciate that there are women of diverse backgrounds who want various different things from life and they're all represented equally and with dignity--same of the male characters. and I do think there's a historical precedent for a lot of the things that are brought up in the episodes! there's real history here. but I think the writers are missing some of the real depth of it for the sake of boiling everything down to focusing on One Specific Topic (ie, anti-woman sexism, social injustice, and general misogyny in the past and the struggle to be seen as An Actual Valid Professional as a woman in a career and profession completely dominated by men). and in a lot of ways, when the story really gets lost in itself and stops trying so hard to be About Sexism, it's a lot more immersive and enjoyable.

again, all just imho.

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haha i used too many tags on that last post

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Silver Pigs (1989)

I think about this scene at least once a week.

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Review: The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen

Series: Andy Mills #2Author: Lev A.C. RosenPublisher: Forge BooksReleased: October 10, 2023Received: ARCFind it on Goodreads | More Mysteries Book Summary: Detective Evander “Andy” Mills once thought his life was over. While it has changed quite drastically from the life he once lived – he has started to find a place for himself. This is thanks largely to the community around him. Andy can…

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Newly acquired:

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo. Translated by Louise Heal Kawai.

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Adventures of Young Detectives | s01e07

Chinese Drama - 2023, 20 episodes  

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Series Update: Lady Hardcastle

Good news for fans of T E Kinsey’s Lady Hardcastle series – the eleventh book came out this week. I’ve written about the series before, so do feel free to go back and read those posts, but in the latest book we’ve reached 1912 and a murder in Bristol sees our intrepid duo head to London. I’ve already finished it – and it’s pretty good and I also appreciated all the historical notes at the end,…

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Detectives, Sleuths, & Nosy Neighbors

“Detectives, Sleuths & Nosy Neighbors,” by Inkd Publishing released today! My story “God’s Truth” – a Lady Sheriff story – is included. If you’d like to this anthology of amazing stories, and catch up with Sheriff Claire Williams, you can buy the anthology here.

Next week I plan to do a Fun Facts post on the genesis of “God’s Truth.”

Until next time!

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Bridge at the Beach by Garrick Jones

BOOK BLAST Book Title: Bridge at the Beach (A Clyde Smith Mystery #4) Author and Cover Artist: Garrick Jones Publisher: Moshpit Publications Release Date: April 12, 2024 Genre: Crime Thriller Themes: Sowing one’s oats; Finding Mr. Right; Acceptance in community; Historical fiction; Crime Fiction; Detective Fiction Heat Rating:  2 flames  Length:  134 000 words/ 392 pages  It is part of…

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helloooo this is a MASTER POST of my Sherlock Holmes annotations, aka shitpost doodles of my favorite parts with occasional headcanons. I will pin this so it's available and update it as I go because this feels like it's becoming a full series, god help me.

I'm reading the stories in the order they occurred (according to Baring-Gould, who I am currently arm wrestling in the astral plane over how many wives Watson had) so that's how I will present them!

EDIT: decided to draw them in the order that makes sense to me, Baring-Gould you’re too silly

EDIT 2: this is basically a webcomic at this point, with ongoing continuity and a romantic storyline that can be enjoyed if you read in order. I did not intend this, but I have Sherlock Holmes disease and there's only one cure (doing this)

EDIT 3: content warning/advertisement depending on your temperament: this series gets into one of my big interests, historical queerness, period accurate homophobia, and how laws around queerness affected lived experience. it also has things that you can expect from a Sherlock Holmes story like: drug use involving needles, violence, flagrant use of old timey guns, and people dying in shocking and mysterious ways!

Copies of Volume 1 can be purchased here!

A Study in Scarlet 🩸

The Speckled Band 🐍

The Resident Patient 🩺

The Noble Bachelor 👰

The Second Stain 📮

The Reigate Squires 📝

The Dancing Men 👯‍♂️

Silver Blaze 🏇🏻

The Six Napoleons ⚫️

The Red Circle 🕯️🪟

The Greek Interpreter 🩹

Mycroft Interlude 🎩

The Beryl Coronet 🥪

The Yellow Face 🙂

The Hound of the Baskervilles 🐺

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

-Part Six

-Part Seven

The Gloria Scott ⚓️

The Valley of Fear 🏰

-Part One

-Part Two

Shoscombe Old Place 🎣

Charles Augustus Milverton 💌

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

The Copper Beeches ✂️

-Part One

-Part Two

The Sign of the Four 💉

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

-Part Four

-Part Five

-Illustration

-Part Six

-Part Seven

The Cardboard Box 📦👂🏻

Second Interlude 💒

A Scandal In Bohemia 💃

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

The Stockbrokers Clerk 🦷

The Engineer’s Thumb 👍🏻

The Crooked Man 🦝

The Naval Treaty 🌹

The Five Orange Pips 🍊

The Man With The Twisted Lip 🧽

-Part One

-Part Two

The Boscombe Valley Mystery 🪨

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three

The Dying Detective 🦪

-Part One

-Part Two

-Part Three