Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal

Crime

  • Violence and the Social Contract

    There are times when a mystery novel appeals as a source of entertainment. The appeal of a mystery novel is the neatness. Facts are laid out like bread crumbs. We follow the trail, piecing together the evidence from the scene… Continue reading

  • The  Treacherous Connoisseur: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

    One morning⸺ it was on the fifteenth of May⸺ I was returning from visiting a colleague in Oxford when I entered that well-known door on Baker Street.  Violin music, played with fierce energy, wafted from those rooms Sherlock Holmes inhabited.… Continue reading