Reviewed by Mike Tooney: OLD-TIME DETECTION, Summer 2026.

(Give Me That) OLD-TIME DETECTION (OTD). Summer 2026. Issue #72. Editor: Arthur Vidro. Old-Time Detection Special Interest Group of American Mensa, Ltd. 34 pages (including covers). ARTHUR VIDRO is clearly on a roll, generating a readable and entertaining compendium of mystery lore every time. In this issue: Two hardboiled’s get their due notice – Agatha gets dissed – Meanwhile, Carolyn Wells gets overlooked – In contrast, Sir Arthur receives the royal treatment – We have a plenitude of paperbacks to choose from – There was more to Moriarty than Conan Doyle told us – Indeed, there was a lot more to one of JDC’s novels than most of us realize – Not all puns are atrocious; some can even help solve a crime – And getting tuckerized just might make your day. Being an established crimefic author himself, Martin Edwards is more than qualified to give us his take on Dashiell Hammetts’s THE DAIN CURSE (1929): “His execution of the concept is artistically flawed . . .” While we’re dealing with…