• The Locked Room, Island-Style: Writing a Mystery Where Paradise Turns Deadly

    Katherine Wood on finding the right balance of escapism and dread.



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    Murder Spelled Backwards: Appreciating Wordplay in Literature

    Word puzzles are all around us. Evian is naïve spelled backwards (which fits, seeing as anyone paying a surcharge for fancy...

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