Sublime

It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that for a special “All Nations” issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Boucher convinced the editors to publish his translation of an Argentine poet and essayist hardly known within the United States. Thus, in that fateful EQMM August 1948 issue, beneath a typically garish cover showing a black-gloved woman be

Riding through the old forests, you could never shake the feeling that there was a quest around the corner, put there by some greater power, whether that power was the Christ King or the Saxon gods or some older goddess of the trees. Arthur never seemed to notice. It seemed natural to him that things of import should occur in his proximity. If anyo

Fortuitous

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

I had refined and symbolised and made her into a sign of joy, and now before me she shone disarrayed—not a symbol, but a woman, in the new intelligence that had come to me, and I longed for her. I had just enough strength and no more."

reverenced.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

inscrutability