Monday, 16 September 2019

Terminology In Murder In Black Letter

Murder In Black Letter by Poul Anderson.

incunabula (3)
La Vecchia religione (3)
a propos des bottes (3)
De mortuis nil nisi bonum (2)
claque (2)
calabash pipe (2)
why-buy-a-cow (2)
jerkwater (2)
dojo (1)
epee (1)

Some terminology is completely unfamiliar. All is interesting to google. There are twenty chapters. The list will grow.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

One of the things I recalled about MURDER IN BLACK LETTER was my dissatisfaction at seeing so little about Trygve Yamamura, despite that being called a Yamamura mystery. That, and so much of the focus being on Kintyre jarred with my preconceptions of how a mystery was written.

That said, I was interested in a plot involving things like incunabula and other old books. Plus, many after I first read MURDER, I found an unexpected connection linking that book to WE CLAIM THESE STARS.

Ad astra! Sean