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--or shall we say not absolutely confident I know the exact meaning of, I'm going to actually take time to look it up and share it with mystery-lovers everywhere. 😊
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day: Cartilaginous Fish (noun): fish that have skeletons made of cartilage, not bone, unlike most other fish.
Today's GAD Mystery Word of the Day: Cartilaginous Fish (noun): fish that have skeletons made of cartilage, not bone, unlike most other fish.
What they do, these fraudulent artisans, is they obtain some species of cartilaginous fish and manipulate it by hand before treating it chemically so it eventually resembles some manner of mythological beast. (from the GAD-style mystery The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead)
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