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Christopher Huang

@misericordius.bsky.social
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I write historical mysteries and dabble in interactive fiction. www.ricordius.com Mostly, I post dad jokes and puns.

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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What is the difference between a footman and a postman? One works in livery, the other in delivery.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ordinary people are merely curious, but the Greek philosopher is Epic-curious.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Can I just say how much I UTTERLY DESPISE this habit of "describing" a thing by listing its contents/attributes in sentence fragments? "They sent their best man. John Smith. A survivalist. Oxford-educated." Those rare instances that aren't AI slop, please stop. It's not profound. It's overdone.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
First time I took note of Sam Neill was in "And Then There Were None". He was an older, greying guy with a heavy moustache. Then "Peaky Blinders": he was an older, greying guy with a heavy moustache. I have no idea what to do with these images of him in "Jurassic Park".
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Of course Norway's economic policies should favour lower income coastal communities. They're a nation built on a fjord ability.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When did "my bad" become a thing? Also, when it become a thing to describe things as "a thing"?
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Next book on my TBR pile is "The Necropolis Railway" by Andrew Martin, which layers a murder mystery on top of that railway in a 1903 setting. I think there were five or six major cemeteries that the railway ran to, including Highgate Cemetery? That one is worth a visit if you're in London!
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"He lived in a world where 'enjoying a joint' meant dining on a leg of lamb."
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
True. Also, it's probably a bit self-defeating to disillusion the guy's followers by deepening their homophobia. Perhaps a better reaction would be more along the lines of "Wow, alpha male fashion is so tacky!"
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I suspect it's mainly because Tate presents himself as this hyper-masculine, super-straight dude who would definitely be insulted by the comments. If this had been anyone else, no one would care.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Did you hear about the goblin horde that commissioned gnoll blacksmiths to sharpen the swords of their bugbear heroes? They knew that a gnoll edge is power. D&D joke or DAD joke? You decide.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Does anyone else remember when Grand Duke Alexei's name was spelled "Alexis" in English? When did we switch?
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Today I learned that Sarah Winchester (of the Winchester Mystery House fame) had a female personal physician (very progressive for the 1800s) and this doctor's name was ... Euthanasia Meade. Never mind that she's a medical professional named Euthanasia. Who names their daughter Euthanasia??
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If you happen to be in Calgary this September, please do drop in!
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Curling Up with Crime! A Multi-Author Reading | Owl's Nest Bookstore
Calgary's local independent bookstore since 1975
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Y'know ... every time I've encountered a "do this only for dead people" thing, no matter the culture, doing the same for a living person has been interpreted as a death wish on that living person ...
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I will testify that rotini somehow tastes better than other pastas despite differing only in shape.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I keep thinking about this bit in one of the HHGttG books, about modern humans being descended from all the inept losers (eg, telephone sanitisers) who'd been expelled by the elites of their planet ... And how all those elites then died out from a disease transmitted through a dirty telephone.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Did you hear about the summer retreat for drag queens? It was a very ... camp camp.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Does anyone remember when toothpaste tubes were made of ... aluminium, I think? Some kind of pliable metal? And if you squeezed from the middle, you'd have a lump of toothpaste at the end that would be a pain to get out?
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If a man lives on lies, he deserves to have his truth disbelieved.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The suburban expansion of #London is as much a feature of the #1920s as flappers and jazz, and the driving force behind it is #WW1 (of course) and something that looks suspiciously like the #cottagecore aesthetic.
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Cottagecore, #1920s style! #history #architecture #london
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ugh, Buckley's ... I wonder if your strategy is to be so awful that the body cures itself double-quick just to avoid another dose.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We've had one London, yes, but what about second London? What do they really mean when stories set in London talk about "the City"?
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We've had one #London but how about second London? #history #trivia
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Louis XVI of France was obsessed with locksmithing. If the French Revolution were an RPG campaign, he'd have picked the lock of his prison and escaped himself long before the PCs could find and rescue him.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
How's this for a book video? (Music by Jon Radburne at www.youtube.com/@JonRadburne...)
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Wait. Is this ... Are you doing a ... a Five Act structure?? I thought I was the only one!
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#Fashion always means something, whether we're talking clothes or #books. Here is my personal theory on where #flappers, #WinniethePooh, and #PTSD meet: one of the many factors going into the post-WW1 #1920s mindset.
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Oh, to be young again! #1920s #fashion #ptsd #winniethepooh
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
As a historical mystery writer: yes. I've found that period tech enriches the sense of immersion in the setting, as do the real-world events surrounding the story.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This was probably THE political upset of the mid-1920s. In case you were wondering what's going on in the background of my books.
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Political scandals, #1920s edition #history
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If we're talking about locked room mysteries (like that upcoming anthology from Crippen & Landru, see my repost from @tommeadauthor.bsky.social a couple days back) let's talk about where it all began ...
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The locked room #mystery and other tropes of the genre #edgarallanpoe
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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readingreality.bsky.social @readingreality.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Grade A #BookReview: A Pretender's Murder by Christopher Huang #booksky @misericordius.bsky.social #Inkshares #EricPeterkin #mystery #HistoricalMystery #HistoricalFiction #WW1
readingreality.net
Grade A #BookReview: A Pretender’s Murder by Christopher Huang
My Review: In the first book in this series, A Gentleman’s Murder, we were introduced to the rarefied world of the Britannia, one of Britain’s rarefied ‘gentlemen’s clubs’. The Britannia, with its particular long and storied history, is a bit different from the more famous, and occasionally infamous, White’s, Brooks’s and Boodle’s. Because prospective members do not merely need to be ‘gentlemen’ but need specifically to be gentlemen who have served in one of Britain’s many, many wars over the centuries since the Britannia was founded.
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Tom Mead @tommeadauthor.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Probably my favourite tale of murder to come out of the interbellum period.
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The Murder of George V #history #1930s #1920s #royalscandals
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Sure, I suppose you COULD jump-start the Second Coming ... but how friendly would YOU be to the dude who rolled you out of bed at three in the morning and loudly insisted you come over to his place, like, RIGHT NOW?
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
And then, around 1910, the hobble skirt came into fashion; which made it not just difficult, but actually impossible to run in. I remember reading an account of the Tsarina Aleksandra laughing at a lady-in-waiting for wearing one, because "let's see you run in that!"
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I know they were also discouraged from riding bicycles! Because bicycles gave them a scope for travel that mere legwork did not.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
... though, as I understand it, the British don't default to "military veteran" when they hear "veteran", as the Americans do.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
James Herriot's stint in WW2 makes him a vet who's also a vet.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Said this once, gonna say it again.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If you're gonna clutch your pearls, you're gonna need a reason ...
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All the news that's fit to print ...
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
(Repost) We all know that libraries are a good thing, yeah? Some thoughts on the social effects of injecting hope into depressed urban societies ...
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How libraries fixed the Industrial Revolution. #history #books
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
ICE BREAKING APART!
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ST. LAWRENCE ICE (NOISE WARNING)
YouTube video by Fish Out of Water
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Interview With an Author: Christopher Huang
Christopher Huang grew up in Singapore, an only child in a family tree that expands dramatically sideways at his parents' generation. He moved to Canada after his National Service, studied architectur...
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Here's a peek into Eric Peterkin's head (or, at least, his journal) in the days just before A Pretender's Murder ...
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A Day in My Life ~ Eric Peterkin by Christopher Huang
From the journal of Eric Peterkin, dated 27 February 1925: I miss my Usual Armchair. The chief advantage of a job evaluating manuscripts for publication i
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Yeah, why DO we love this genre so much?
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On Crime Fiction As a Proxy for Real Life Justice
Quick question: why do we read mysteries? What is it about identifying the secret perpetrator of a singular crime that rocks our socks, so to speak? Well, lots of reasons; but chiefly, I think, it’…
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Crime Writers of Color @crimewoc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Happy release day to @misericordius.bsky.social for A PRETENDER'S MURDER! www.crimewritersofcolor.com/bookdetails?...
Book cover of A PRETENDER'S MURDER of a puzzle of a gun by Christopher Huang. Crime Writers of Color in a magnifying glass.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
ONE DAY MORE before A Pretender's Murder officially releases into the wild!
Three books nestled in a blue armchair with a sepia-patterned cushion: A Gentleman's Murder, Unnatural Ends, and A Pretender's Murder. Before them, a dagger-like letter opener with a lion's head handle lies on the coils of an undone burgundy bowtie.
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Writing a mixed-race main character in a Golden Age mystery means researching racial tensions in post-WW1 Britain. (Most of the images used here come from The Mixed Museum, which is well worth the look: mixedmuseum.org.uk)
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Asian sailors and the 1919 race riots
YouTube video by Christopher Huang
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Janet Rudolph @janetrudolph.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Writing Beyond the Fields You Know: Guest Post #ChristopherHuang #crimefiction mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2026/02/writ...
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Writing Beyond The Fields You Know: Guest Post by Christopher Huang
Letterbox.   Gosh-darn, bloomin’ letterboxes.  It’s a bit too late to change this, I’m afraid, but apparently I have allowed a little hint t...
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Christopher Huang @misericordius.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Can they bring it up to prison spec? I mean, house arrest is a thing, so maybe imprisonment in the Tower can be done the same way? I just want the Tower to stand as a continuing reminder that even the royal family is not above the law.
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