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Miss Pym is very woman's perspective and Franchise Affair is very man's perspective. And, in spite of Franchise Affair being listed as a Grant book, it really isn't - so someone who isn't a Grant fan has nothing to fear from it. (And Grant does flesh out some in the later ones - but he's no...

Tey's "Franchise Affair" might be my all time favorite mystery and I loved "Miss Pym Disposes". They got me to try these ones by Upson. The other Grant ones demonstrated Tey could wordsmith and turn convention on its head with the best, but aren't ones I'll probably revisit.

I'm definitely a cozy and Stout fan too. Watched Luther, but by the end I wasn't anxious for more.

This one wasn't graphic about it, but it seems to be a theme that a lot of the British mysteries on TV (for example) hit for at least one episode. I'm assuming it doesn't repeat and I'll be trying the third in the series.

Finished Nicola Upson's "Angel with Two Faces", the second in her mystery series starring a fictionalized version of Josephine Tey. I really, really like Upson's writing, but the topic of this one ended up being one I'm not a huge fan of - . Saying I hope for a more pleasant murder in the...

Didn't 1e have a whole bunch of them in the DMG that weren't really statted out anywhere? (Sage, Alchemist, and the like). In any case, it does feel like there could be something in between 3e (where the worlds greatest farmer or blacksmith necessarily had a ton of hitpoints and a great BAB...

I don't know why I am still surprised when someone responds in opposite ways in back to back posts.

Was happy to see them mentioned in the OP... Glen Cook's Passage at Arms (trilogy prequel) + Shadowline (trilogy vol. 1) + related short stories is my favorite Sci-Fi. I'm not as high up on everything in Starfishers (trilogy vol. 2) and Star's End (trilogy vol. 3) but some of what's in them is...

Does mind control being evil or not depend on whether the target has free will? <Insert not worked out thoughts on fate/destiny actually being incarnate in a game and whether fighting against those is evil, or if one even could if there is no free will?>

I get that, but I'm kind of wondering what percentage of people who were asked to classify arsenic, cyanide, hemlock, strychnine, insulin, Benadryl, acetaminophen, and aspirin into two groups of four wouldn't come up with the first four and the last four based on how often they were commonly...

Is "the Americas" more common than just America if one wanted to go beyond the US and didn't want to specify North, South or maybe Central? Or does that just identify me as being a USAian?

Since Victoria died 22 Jan 1901 her era does definitionally get a teeny-tiny bit of the 20th century. Anyway, I was thinking that it wasn't like a light was switched on and everything changed at once, and was trying to see what the slide from Victorian to Edwardian was like. Came across this...

Is exorcism mentally controlling/overriding the possessing spirit?

Why do people ask things like they are seriously wondering, when it is clear they have already made up their mind?

And then we get into what it means to be "alive", say for constructs vs. the undead.