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...codes with her device? What does the tone of Knox’s list convey, and what does this tell us about detective fiction and its readers? Do such ‘rules’ alone tell us anything about history and context? Or do they simply relate to formal expectations of the genre? How many of these rules might still usefully apply today? Discussion One possible answer to Question 3: The...

...simple and open that there was no room in them for self-consciousness, and I have often heard him jest at his own misfortune, with a comic wonder at it. The personal characteristic that you would notice most on meeting Lewis Carroll was his extreme shyness. With children, of course, he was not nearly so reserved, but in the society of people of maturer age he was almost...

...simple two-up, two-down cob building. And in 1857 it was passed on to Thomas Hardy's father. And a separate cottage was built next door for his grandmother Mary. That was up for about 20 years as two individual cottages until 1857 when it was knocked through when she passed away and made into the one cottage that we have today. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR Hardy's father was...