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Who to read in classic Whodunits?

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In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant investigates recs for golden age or other older mysteries that stand the test of time.

03/23/24
by taz

Tales of Ratiocination

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In Ask Metafilter, darchildre is looking for locked room mysteries in any medium

09/24/23
by taz

Unapologetic

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"We probably don't go around thinking of Agatha Christie as leaving a 'residue of horror' except that is one of its pleasures, isn't it? These people live in a world even more dangerous than our own--piles of strychnine, whole truckloads of it, just lying about, waiting for you to slight the wrong person and wind up dead."

Mittens has a great comment about crime fiction, crime writing, and crime writers in the Agatha Christie thread.

02/22/23
by taz

Lost and Found Department

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05/16/22
by taz

ISO Weird Mysteries

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In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant is looking for "mysteries that deviate from the standard structure/genre tropes etc. Can be fantasy or science fiction, literary, whatever ... just stuff that’s slightly different"

06/19/21
by taz

Deep Scroll

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More people have been to the Moon than the Hadal Zone.

Dive into motty's post of Neal Agarwal's awesome deep sea scroller to view unfathomable mysteries of the vasty depths, meter by meter

12/07/19
by taz

AskMe Mysteries and Oddments

Insatiable curiosity?

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I heard a story on This American Life ... about a sausage maker who inadvertently ruins their product by getting a new building. In the end, it turned out the problem was they had shortened the route of the final delivery of the sausages and removed what was thought to be the unimportant work of a clerk named Irving. I thought it was fascinating and I want to find other stories like that. Where would I look for them?

rileyray3000, ISO real life food mysteries.

09/27/14
by taz

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