The Top 5 in April

APRIL MIGHT HAVE BEEN the cruelest month for T. S. Eliot, but here at ONTOS a lot of our Faithful Readers seem to have found it pleasurable enough. The most popular posting involved the "Forerunners of Sherlock Holmes," followed by a clever SFF tale ("The 13th Juror"), a trenchant study of criminal psychology ("The Corpse in the 'Tween-Decks"), a one-pager with a nice twist ("Listen to Reason"), and finally one of our "Miscellaneous Monday" excursions. We've also included the most popular items from three years previous.

~ April 2017 ~

(1) "The Process of Drawing Deductions from Established Facts Was As Old As the Sun, and the Application of the Principle to Literature Had Fascinated Writers from the Earliest Ages" — (HERE)
(2) "You Stand Before This Court of Truth-Probity, Accused of Registering the Emotion of Hate" — (HERE)
(3) "A Gurgling Gasp Then, That Was Meant for a Cry but That Was No Louder Than the Whimpering of a Sick Child" — (HERE)
(4) "You Killed Him, Didn't You?" — (HERE)
(5) Miscellaneous Monday—Number Six — (HERE)

~ April 2014 ~

(1) "The Author Outdoes Himself in the Number of People Upon Whom He Brings Suspicion" — (HERE)
(2) Samuel Lyle, A Very Obscure Criminologist Indeed — (HERE)
(3) True Crime Roundup — (HERE)
(4) "It Shows Just How Bad a Detective Story Can Be" — (HERE)
(5) "The Good Detective Story Is in Its Nature a Good Domestic Story" — (HERE)

~ April 2015 ~

(1) A Short Note About Victorian Detective Fiction — (HERE)
(2) Levram Niatpac! — (HERE)
(3) A Noir Film (or Maybe It Isn't) That Isn't Noir (or Maybe It Is) — (HERE)
(4) SCRIBNER'S Reviews I — (HERE)
(5) "I Do Not Dismiss Logic Because I Have Faith" — (HERE)

~ April 2016 ~

(1) An Odd Assortment from '28 — (HERE)
(2) "You Might Say This Is the Story of a Murder — Although Nobody Was Killed" — (HERE)
(3) WHODUNIT Comics — (HERE)
(4) "It Must Have Been Allotropy" — (HERE)
(5) "One Rash Move from Any of You Will Mean Her Death" — (HERE)