Christopher Huang

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Christopher Huang

@misericordius

Mystery author and Interactive Fiction enthusiast. Likes breakfast.

Calgary Katılım Nisan 2010
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So I'm going to be part of this exciting new anthology of locked room mysteries ...
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Here's a story that ought to blow the mind of every writer in the habit of setting their fictional murders in the 1920s/1930s ...
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When you write in a historical period, it pays to know what people considered the "done" thing to do, even if your characters don't always follow all the rules.
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Icebox cakes! A fashionable new (for the 1920s) vehicle for a poisoning mystery, or is it too much to disrespect the dessert?
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@Inkshares Haha, though I wonder at that last bit. When I talked about writing in to ask "is this true", it was a humorous suggestion; I doubt if anyone actually followed through.
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Grok says you nailed it @misericordius
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Yes, the video nails it. Yellow journalism exploded in the 1890s US via Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal, fueled by the Yellow Kid cartoon and wild, unverified scoops. Hearst kept the sensational style into the 1920s. In the UK, News of the World (launched 1843, run by Lord Riddell in the 1920s) thrived on trashy scandals—Agatha Christie even nodded to it. People pushed back with angry letters to editors questioning "Is this true?" Same skepticism, different tools. History rhymes.

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What were they clutching their pearls at, back in the 1920s? (And the 1890s, and the 1840s, because some things never change ...)
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Some thoughts on the impact of social services like public libraries on society: Teach a man to safely fish, and he'll probably do that instead of robbing the local fishmonger.
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🔍 With A PRETENDER'S MURDER publishing this week, be sure to catch the behind-the-scenes process of writing this book. Christopher (@misericordius) discusses in this interview with the great Daryl Maxwell of the @LAPublicLibrary lapl.org/collections-re…
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ONE DAY MORE before A Pretender's Murder officially releases into the wild!
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(A PRETENDER'S MURDER, sequel to A GENTLEMAN'S MURDER, comes out on 24 February from @Inkshares with the same historical racial tension!)
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Writing a mixed-race main character in a Golden Age mystery means researching racial tensions in post-WW1 Britain. (Most of the images used here come from The Mixed Museum, which is well worth the look: mixedmuseum.org.uk)
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As a Canadian, I find myself unreasonably pleased with this one little detail about the upcoming book. (24 FEBRUARY, GUYS! Less than a week to go!)
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