In these three short stories, US author Steven M. Moore pays homage to British-style mysteries. He started reading them long ago, and continues to do so, binge-reading novels and even entire series in the genre during the pandemic (many listed in his end notes). "Reading and writing save me!" he says in a recent blog post. "What do other people do?" Perhaps that's a question for new DS Logan Blake, who leaves the Met in London for peace and quiet in the English countryside but is instead welcomed by three murders most fowl.