Who to read in classic Whodunits?
Book Cover for Gaudy Night
In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant investigates recs for golden age or other older mysteries that stand the test of time.
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Tales of Ratiocination
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In Ask Metafilter, darchildre is looking for locked room mysteries in any medium
Unapologetic
"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.
ISO Weird Mysteries
postcard from the day you left, collage, 2020 by yumikrum (cc by-nc-nd)
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"
Deep Scroll
Hohonu Moana: Exploring Deep Waters off Hawaiʻi by NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research (cc by-sa)
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
AskMe Mysteries and Oddments
"I Dream - Ice Cream" [front] by Boston Public Library (cc by)
Who's the model on this sewing pattern?
Do you remember a poster with a towering stack of ice cream scoops from the 1980s?
What were the white long-handled wands used for museum audio tours in the 1980s?
Did you have one of those tape recordings of a barking dog that you could play for home security?
Insatiable curiosity?
Cauliflower ear by tutincommon (cc by-nc)
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.
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