Whispering Gallery, Issue 154

Antoine Caron’s painting, The Elephant Merry-go-round, speaks directly to the action in Queens’ Play and Checkmate. We delve a little deeper into his work.

Why does Lymond behaves in the way he does? Using the profiling tool she employs in her professional life, a reader explains some of our hero’s personality traits.

We begin a new series locating our characters’ movements around Paris using the 16th-century pictorial map, the Plan de Bâle, starting with the action that takes place at the Porte Saint-Denis.

We make a close examination of how the Dame de Doubtance is linked to The House of Niccolò series. Dolly and the Cookie Bird is the next Johnson Johnson mystery we appraise, and we visit the Bahamas with Dorothy Dunnett.

The penultimate article in our series on medieval Christianity takes a close look at the fundamental structures of society at the time of King Hereafter, and we have a colourful photospread of the various gatherings that took place on 2021’s IDDD. 

Contents

• The Chairman’s Column
• Trustees’ Notice Board
• Members’ Page
• Camille, the Dame de Doubtance, and her links to The House of Niccolò
• Profiling Lymond
• More Pollock than Mondrian: Christianity in the First Millennium, part 5
• Wrapping Up Dunnett
• A Dunnett Lexicon
• An Elephant Merry-go-round
• The Plan de Bâle
• My Story, part 4
• Operation Nassau
• Talking Point
• That's Relevant!

Published June 2022