My new bookish meme for 2026: the Golden Age of Detection (GAD) Mystery Word of the Day. Whenever I find a word that I'm unfamiliar with, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊
Today's GAD Mystery Word (phrase) of the Day is division bell. Taken from my most recent read, The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson, a division bell (noun) is a bell rung in or around parliament in commonwealth realms to signal a division (vote) to members so they may participate. May also be used to indicate the start or end of parliamentary proceedings.
Today's GAD Mystery Word (phrase) of the Day is division bell. Taken from my most recent read, The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson, a division bell (noun) is a bell rung in or around parliament in commonwealth realms to signal a division (vote) to members so they may participate. May also be used to indicate the start or end of parliamentary proceedings.
Well...really rather straightforward. But being on the opposite side of the pond from Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, I hadn't come across the term before and, although the explanation comes pretty quickly when reading, I have to say I had no idea what a division bell was when I picked up the book.
~Oh...and about that "word of the day" thing...I may have been a bit optimistic about the frequency of unfamiliar words. That first GAD mystery (Don Among the Dead Men) was chock full of them. My second read of the year wasn't a Golden Age Mystery (and didn't really introduce any unfamiliar words, anyway). And the Wilkinson book has yielded only a few.
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