Ratiocination In definition, the word ‘ratiocination’ means ‘the process of arriving at a logical deduction through logical reasoning’. In usage, as first utilized by Edgar Alan Poe’s character Auguste Dupin… Read more »
Ngaio Marsh was a New Zealander who wrote mysteries in the British fair-play school of detection during the Golden Age. A contemporary (and somewhat of a competitor) of Agatha Christie,… Read more »
KROGER (rhymes with ogre) I started reading young. I do not know whether it was a matter of natural inclination or at-home instruction (my mother, before she had additional children,… Read more »
Is there anyone who does *not* know Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky? Anyone who does not know of our hero with his vorpal sword, uffishly waiting to slay the whiffling monster? The… Read more »