#Caturday

Wordle 1,177 4/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 So close, yet so far...

Wordle 1,178 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Lucky guess.

It's hard to beat Bruce Hale is writing again for humorous #literary #mystery allusions. This is my favorite. buff.ly/4dX56GC #MurderEveryMonday #detectivefiction #ChetGecko #RaymondChandler #BruceHale

#LucyMaudMontgomery

Wordle 1,180 2/6 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Lucky guess.

#ArthurConanDoyle #ProfessorChallenger

Wordle 1,181 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The agony of multiple combinations.

#RaymondChandler

Wordle 1,182 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Managed to get there.

Wrote the 19 Nov 1924 _Outlook_ re _The Brooklyn Murders_, "Some good amateur detective work & odd investigations into the night life of London" (The Cole #mysteries were a collaboration of GDH Cole & his wife Margaret (sister of Raymond Postgate, author of _Verdict of 12_)

Wordle 1,183 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not bad.

#Caturday

Wordle 1,184 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Finally got there.

Wordle 1,185 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Finally cottoned on.

Wrote librarian Estelle Leonard in the 26 May 1932 _Mount Airy [NC] News_, "Humor, suspense, thrill are all present in [Phoebe Atwood Taylor's] interesting stories & [sleuth] Miss Prudence Whitsby is a wonder."#CapeCod #detectivefiction #MurderEveryMonday

Wordle 1,186 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was a puzzler.

#CFP, Reappraising #JamesEllroy (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_) / proposal deadline 1 Mar 2025 #detectivefiction #crime #crimefiction #noir #LAQuartet #DemonDog #gender #race #corruption buff.ly/3XpBlHN

Wordle 1,187 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A bit slow on the uptake today.

Take a peek at the manuscript of _The Valley of Fear_, (1913), now on display Folger Shakespeare Library . buff.ly/3zhynxb #ArthurConanDoyle #SherlockHolmes #detectivefiction