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Greater Minds: Ronald Knox and the prankster’s rules of the detective story

In 1929, Ronald Knox published ‘decalogue’: ten rules of writing a detective story. Knox was a priest, a crime writer and a satirist. He’d already invented retcon and caused a national panic with a parody radio broadcast. Knox probably didn’t

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Greater Minds: Mysteries

I’m starting the Wednesday pontifications with a subseries I’ll call Greater Minds. I’ll be taking various articles, podcasts or anything else that looks relevant to writing, and discussing what I’ve learned from them. The discussion is not intended to summarise

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