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  • For children: Young detectives suspect something sinister when a woman is pronounced a ‘witch’

    For children: Young detectives suspect something sinister when a woman is pronounced a ‘witch’

    Mallika Ravikumar
    · May 26, 2025 · 01:30 pm
  • Children’s fiction: Three friends (and a dog) crack a case of an antiquity smuggling racket

    Children’s fiction: Three friends (and a dog) crack a case of an antiquity smuggling racket

    Mallika Ravikumar
    · Nov 28, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • A mongoose detective peels back some of the layers of the natural world in this marvellous comic

    A mongoose detective peels back some of the layers of the natural world in this marvellous comic

    Jai Arjun Singh
    · Oct 16, 2021 · 08:30 am
  • Hercule Poirot, still the world’s most loved detective, turns 100

    Hercule Poirot, still the world’s most loved detective, turns 100

    Christopher Pittard, The Conversation
    · Jan 27, 2021 · 05:30 pm
  • How writers of stories with ‘impossible crimes’ sidetracked readers with ghostly red herrings

    How writers of stories with ‘impossible crimes’ sidetracked readers with ghostly red herrings

    Jai Arjun Singh
    · Oct 07, 2017 · 06:30 pm