Ugh, Buckley's ... I wonder if your strategy is to be so awful that the body cures itself double-quick just to avoid another dose.

We've had one #London but how about second London? #history #trivia YouTube video by Christopher Huang

We've had one London, yes, but what about second London? What do they really mean when stories set in London talk about "the City"?

Louis XVI of France was obsessed with locksmithing.

If the French Revolution were an RPG campaign, he'd have picked the lock of his prison and escaped himself long before the PCs could find and rescue him.

How's this for a book video? (Music by Jon Radburne at www.youtube.com/@JonRadburne...)

Wait. Is this ... Are you doing a ... a Five Act structure??

I thought I was the only one!

Oh, to be young again! #1920s #fashion #ptsd #winniethepooh YouTube video by Christopher Huang

#Fashion always means something, whether we're talking clothes or #books. Here is my personal theory on where #flappers, #WinniethePooh, and #PTSD meet: one of the many factors going into the post-WW1 #1920s mindset.

As a historical mystery writer: yes. I've found that period tech enriches the sense of immersion in the setting, as do the real-world events surrounding the story.

Political scandals, #1920s edition #history YouTube video by Christopher Huang

This was probably THE political upset of the mid-1920s. In case you were wondering what's going on in the background of my books.

The locked room #mystery and other tropes of the genre #edgarallanpoe YouTube video by Christopher Huang

If we're talking about locked room mysteries (like that upcoming anthology from Crippen & Landru, see my repost from @tommeadauthor.bsky.social a couple days back) let's talk about where it all began ...

Grade A #BookReview: A Pretender’s Murder by Christopher Huang My Review: In the first book in this series, A Gentleman’s Murder, we were introduced to the rarefied world of the Britannia, one of Britain’s rarefied ‘gentlemen’s clubs’. The Britannia, with its particular long and storied history, is a bit different from the more famous, and occasionally infamous, White’s, Brooks’s and Boodle’s. Because prospective members do not merely need to be ‘gentlemen’ but need specifically to be gentlemen who have served in one of Britain’s many, many wars over the centuries since the Britannia was founded.

Grade A #BookReview: A Pretender's Murder by Christopher Huang #booksky @misericordius.bsky.social #Inkshares #EricPeterkin #mystery #HistoricalMystery #HistoricalFiction #WW1

The Murder of George V #history #1930s #1920s #royalscandals YouTube video by Christopher Huang

Probably my favourite tale of murder to come out of the interbellum period.

Sure, I suppose you COULD jump-start the Second Coming ... but how friendly would YOU be to the dude who rolled you out of bed at three in the morning and loudly insisted you come over to his place, like, RIGHT NOW?

And then, around 1910, the hobble skirt came into fashion; which made it not just difficult, but actually impossible to run in. I remember reading an account of the Tsarina Aleksandra laughing at a lady-in-waiting for wearing one, because "let's see you run in that!"

I know they were also discouraged from riding bicycles! Because bicycles gave them a scope for travel that mere legwork did not.

... though, as I understand it, the British don't default to "military veteran" when they hear "veteran", as the Americans do.

James Herriot's stint in WW2 makes him a vet who's also a vet.

Said this once, gonna say it again.

All the news that's fit to print ... YouTube video by Christopher Huang

If you're gonna clutch your pearls, you're gonna need a reason ...

How libraries fixed the Industrial Revolution. #history #books YouTube video by Christopher Huang

(Repost) We all know that libraries are a good thing, yeah? Some thoughts on the social effects of injecting hope into depressed urban societies ...

ST. LAWRENCE ICE (NOISE WARNING) YouTube video by Fish Out of Water

ICE BREAKING APART!

A Day in My Life ~ Eric Peterkin by Christopher Huang From the journal of Eric Peterkin, dated 27 February 1925: I miss my Usual Armchair. The chief advantage of a job evaluating manuscripts for publication i

Here's a peek into Eric Peterkin's head (or, at least, his journal) in the days just before A Pretender's Murder ...

On Crime Fiction As a Proxy for Real Life Justice Quick question: why do we read mysteries? What is it about identifying the secret perpetrator of a singular crime that rocks our socks, so to speak? Well, lots of reasons; but chiefly, I think, it’…

Yeah, why DO we love this genre so much?

Book cover of A PRETENDER'S MURDER of a puzzle of a gun by Christopher Huang. Crime Writers of Color in a magnifying glass.

Happy release day to @misericordius.bsky.social for A PRETENDER'S MURDER! www.crimewritersofcolor.com/bookdetails?...

Three books nestled in a blue armchair with a sepia-patterned cushion: A Gentleman's Murder, Unnatural Ends, and A Pretender's Murder. Before them, a dagger-like letter opener with a lion's head handle lies on the coils of an undone burgundy bowtie.

ONE DAY MORE before A Pretender's Murder officially releases into the wild!

Asian sailors and the 1919 race riots YouTube video by Christopher Huang

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)

Writing Beyond The Fields You Know: Guest Post by Christopher Huang Letterbox.   Gosh-darn, bloomin’ letterboxes.  It’s a bit too late to change this, I’m afraid, but apparently I have allowed a little hint t...

Writing Beyond the Fields You Know: Guest Post #ChristopherHuang #crimefiction mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/02/writ...

Can they bring it up to prison spec? I mean, house arrest is a thing, so maybe imprisonment in the Tower can be done the same way?

I just want the Tower to stand as a continuing reminder that even the royal family is not above the law.

I must admit, I will be a little sad if Mountbatten-Windsor's prison isn't the Tower of London. It's TRADITION, dammit.