Do you see where I've been hiding in this hide-and-seek?
As a distraction from the latest medical stressors, I seem to be participating in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
threesentenceficathon for the first time. It is just as well that it is not an anonymous exchange, since all three prompts [edit: +1] I have filled so far could be obviously traced to me; nonetheless they are the first creative writing of any kind I have done all year. I may copy one of them to AO3 if the recipient approves. I don't know most of the requested fandoms. The songfic component interests me. I continue to feel I am not designed for fandom generally, but I am enjoying the experiment. I got out of the house before sunset and after a squall of rain which cleared just in time for clouds in the east crumbling like embers and piling up in the west like wet-inked mountains at the end of the street. Hestia has been sticking close to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch, especially when he's in bed and she can make herself a little black challah behind his knees. I made oatmeal with goat's milk and continue not to love this year.
threesentenceficathon for the first time. It is just as well that it is not an anonymous exchange, since all three prompts [edit: +1] I have filled so far could be obviously traced to me; nonetheless they are the first creative writing of any kind I have done all year. I may copy one of them to AO3 if the recipient approves. I don't know most of the requested fandoms. The songfic component interests me. I continue to feel I am not designed for fandom generally, but I am enjoying the experiment. I got out of the house before sunset and after a squall of rain which cleared just in time for clouds in the east crumbling like embers and piling up in the west like wet-inked mountains at the end of the street. Hestia has been sticking close to spatch, especially when he's in bed and she can make herself a little black challah behind his knees. I made oatmeal with goat's milk and continue not to love this year.
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To be fair, as I will never tire of pointing out, Margery Allingham is also like this.
(Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin are the other ones who jump to mind. The former is the one who wrote a novel where the characters in it wind up complaining that they might as well be in a Michael Innes novel.)
Edmund Crispin I enjoyed at least half a dozen novels in the Gervase Fen series by—I don't think I hit a wall on them, I think the small press that was reprinting them stopped—at least one of which I remember containing a notable fourth-wall break. I don't think I have ever read anything by Michael Innes, although my mother might have had some of his books in the house when I was growing up. I see why you class him and Carr and Crispin on the strength of the metafiction alone.
I seem to remember the prison one the detective - Fell or Other One - set about solving it by setting up a funfair in someone's gardens, so yes.
It's a John Dickson Carr novel! Why not?
I recognised that I had seen him in something when he was older, but this is the first time he's come on my radar, and he's certainly notably enjoyable as Skelton, the Intelligence Officer.
Should I ever watch this show, I will keep an eye out for him. I don't suppose you have giffed any of it?
My Mum liked it! We just haven't been physically in the same space since I lent it to her in October.
Fair enough! I'm glad she liked it.
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A bit late in the game, though! XD
I don't think I have ever read anything by Michael Innes, although my mother might have had some of his books in the house when I was growing up. I see why you class him and Carr and Crispin on the strength of the metafiction alone.
I unfortunately have not been able to read enough Michael Innes to determine what a normal Michael Innes book looks like and whether or not I just happened to read the two outliers that shouldn't have been counted, although it is possible. (I've read about 4 or 5 and 2-3 of them were light but relatively normal or more comedic, but the others were Death at the President's Lodging (straight up classical Golden Age murder) and The Daffodil Affair (which started out with a horse and a house getting stolen and by the end we were in South America bemoaning being in a rubbish detective book by Michael Innes), but he goes in that box for the humour and randomness all right. (Idk if I recommend The Daffodil Affair as such, but it was pleasingly bonkers. The President's Lodging was great, and I do.)
I've read 3 Gervase Fens so far, and I do like Love Lies Bleeding, but am less sure about the others, but, again, certainly on the scale there.
It's a John Dickson Carr novel! Why not?
LOL, true.
Should I ever watch this show, I will keep an eye out for him. I don't suppose you have giffed any of it?
Eps 1-4 are all on disc 1, and I'm not yet at the end of ep4 (it's 6 eps), so I can't gif and watch it. I'm being a bit rubbish at giffing lately. I did manage a couple of Jeremy Northam in Poirot a couple of weeks ago, but I lack motivation!