Getting the money right matters more than getting the clothes right in a historical mystery

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How a single historical mystery hides its clue inside an object the period had just invented Opening a historical mystery with a scene set centuries earlier usually gives away the motive The hardest part of plotting one historical mystery is that the detective cannot check anything quickly Using a real historical figure as the suspect forces a historical mystery to respect what actually happened When the solution depends on a period law nobody has heard of the fair-play rule in a historical mystery breaks Ancient Rome and medieval England both produce detectives and the two eras read nothing alike Ronald Knox's ten commandments for detective fiction banned the secret passage and the unknown twin The English locked-room mystery tradition kept the fair-play rules while the American pulps ignored them Why the victim in a cozy mystery is almost always an outsider to the town Poirot straightens the ornaments and Miss Marple knits: both are reading the room in different costumes