Humorous Mysteries in Unconventional Settings

I like Asimov’s Black Widower’s short stories.

I have a signed first edition of that book. I got it at the War the year it came out.

Agatha Christie did a collection of short stories called PARTNERS IN CRIME, where Tommy and Tuppence take up residence in the empty office of a defunct detective agency and decide to play sleuth by acting like one fictional detective after another. Since they’re already prone to conning folks by making stuff up on the spot, they can get pretty carried away: sometimes throwing themselves into the act with extra gusto, sometimes twisting the role completely out of shape, often with self-referential asides about how stuff that makes perfect sense in a book probably wouldn’t work in the real world.

So, okay, Tommy does the Blind Detective Whose Eyes Cannot Deceive Him bit, which of course means he spends a good deal of the story banging into things in between pointedly not deducing what’s going on around him…