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The Scoop (1989 Computer Game)
Not a review, I’m afraid, but instead a plea for information. [No Spoilers Here] I’ve been playing a lot of older mystery games recently to see if anyone has ever managed to get the format right. My...
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Oxalic Acid
I’ve made a few notes about parts of Death in High Heels that couldn’t be squeezed into my main post. All of them, it transpires, are about oxalic acid. [No spoilers here, except a few facts about...
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Victorian Mysteries: Yellow Room (Freeze Tag Games, 2012)
I’d told myself I wasn’t going to play any more hidden object games, but when I got an email announcing the release of a game based on Gaston Leroux’s locked-room classic, The Mystery of the Yellow...
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Adaptations
A few things have got me thinking lately about adapting mysteries: there was an interesting post and discussion about the BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Nemesis on Yvette’s blog; the awful...
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May Roundup
Sorry, sorry. I had a whole plan for getting my act together. A proper schedule of updates and features. Not just blogging, either. Proper working hours for my writing and editing work. More exercise...
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Reboot
Happy 2013! 2012′s blogging stats don’t paint an entirely successful picture: a mere 17 posts, at least 2 of which are apologies for the lack of posts. Got a few thousand views, though, so that’s...
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Fridays and the Christie Project
As I mentioned in my reboot post, Friday will have a rotation of different things. As well as some of my own fiction and a return to the solve-alongs, this will also be the day when I post my more...
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Three Late Carrs
I spent most of November in China, which is not a particularly relaxing place! So it seemed the perfect opportunity to do so untaxing reading. I finally took the opportunity to read some of John...
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Last Window: The Secret of Cape West (2010, Nintendo DS)
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West for Nintendo DS is a sequel to 2007’s Hotel Dusk. Like its predecessor, Cape West is a staunchly old-fashioned mystery adventure with an arresting visual style; the...
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Three Adventure Games
So my blogging schedule was a bust. No surprises there, really. But I must say I impressed myself with how quickly I flubbed it. Oh well. Never apologise. I’ve been very busy. A lot more people seem to...
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Tea and Crumpets; Father Brown (BBC, 2013)
I don’t envy the BBC website. They’ve got a lot of content to churn out, and it’s inevitable that a lot of it will be pure marshmallow. Last year they published a piece explaining – shock! – that real...
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The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (Raymond Smullyan, 1979)
Grr. Too many people want to watch Sherlock, iPlayer keeps freezing. Better write a blog post, or I’ll just keep hitting refresh and ruin the whole thing. With all the Sherlock mania at the moment,...
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Phoenix Wright, Dual Destinies (Capcom, 2013)
I’m slowly crawling my way through the latest Phoenix Wright game, Dual Destinies. I want to like them: the bombastic courtroom setting is funny; the impossible crimes are intricate and original. But...
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Mephisto
I’ve been pretty ill this weekend, so just a quick real-life mystery today. As is usual in the new year, I’ve been rooting through old notebooks to see which half-formed plots I’ve got buried there...
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