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Books in the Scullery

Jem Bloomfield

Books in the Scullery is a substack about books, their intricacies, and the connections between them. From Agatha Christie to medieval mystery plays, via Renaissance poetry, Jane Austen, Narnia and more.

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Why did Agatha Christie quote Shakespeare? This might seem rather an odd question. But it’s one which keeps cropping up, at least implicitly, when I’ve been researching Christie’s novels. One straightforward answer is that Shakespeare was m...

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Lord Peter Wimsey Becomes Embroiled In Farce

I’ve been listening to a collection of farces by Ben Travers recently. I must admit I didn’t know his work before, or knew of it only by hazy reputation, but he was a big writer of light comedy in the 1920s and 30s. He produced novels and d...

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Chronicling the Cadfael Style

In “Brother Cadfael and the Country House”, I wrote about how Ellis Peters blended her medieval setting with the Golden Age mystery genre. I’d like to look more closely at the opening of her novel Monk’s-Hood, to tease out some of details o...

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Brother Cadfael and the Country House

Ellis Peters essentially built the historical detective novel, as we know it today. Whilst she was not the first person to set a mystery in the past, the “Brother Cadfael” series did a great deal to construct the form. Her stories about a t...

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Mr. Tumnus' Bookshelf

C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe depicts the magical world of Narnia in vivid images. The blank, silent courtyard of the White Witch’s castle, the glittering pavilions of Aslan’s camp, and the dawn-streaked hilltop of the St...

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