There's a quirk in canon law that says on matters ecclesiastical, only a pope can try a cardinal. But what if you're trying to elect a new pope? When a cardinal is found dead on the middle of the conclave, the race is on to find the perpetrator before he can get himself elected pope and sweep the whole thing under the rug...

I'm not Catholic. I'd get far too many things wrong. But I'd read the hell out of it if somebody took my idea and ran with it... #writing #DetectiveFiction #catholic

tagging @Acrophile ....

“…rather than a locked-room mystery in which the murder is an impossible crime, the detective is in (and becomes) the locked room, using cerebral means to reason his way into a solution to a genuine historical conundrum”

“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before” – @sarahweinman on the fiction of Josephine Tey

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https://lithub.com/a-mystery-novel-like-no-other-before-on-josephine-teys-the-daughter-of-time/

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It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Books you can read & download for free right now – The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke

R. Austin Freeman was a member of The Detection Club and he is known for the invention of the inverted mystery, where the reader gets from the beginning the description of the crime and/or the perpetrator, but still wants to read the story to know how or why it was done.

I’m suggesting The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke, a collection of short stories with a preface where Freeman explains how he came to write this type of mystery. Dr. Thorndyke, Freeman’s detective, is a medical doctor, like its creator, turned forensic scientist, so if you like mysteries with scientific know-how, this is also a good choice.

So, this weekend give yourself some “me time” with no worries, nor rushes, get a cup of tea (or coffee, by all means) and curl up with these (kind of different) mystery stories, because you really deserve it.

You can download the book at Project Gutenberg, there are several formats you can choose to read on your mobile, computer, ereader, you can even read the book on your browser.

(I may be making this “It’s Weekend, Let’s Read” a kind of habit, let me know in the comments if it’s something you’re finding interesting).

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We're always delighted to see new writing from our chum (and gentleman farmer!) James Oswald, hitting the shelves, the latest Inspector MacLean novel.

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#WhatWereReading : Joe has been totally taken with Penguin Classic's new translations of the work of godfather of Japanese detective fiction, Seicho Matsumoto, especially the haiku-writing Inspector Imanishi, which is now out in a new paperback edition.

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