My newest mystery meme: 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: Cheiromantist (noun) - a person who practices palmistry, the art of reading character and predicting future events through the interpretation of lines, shapes, and mounts on a person's palm.
Suddenly she looked eagerly around the room and said, in her clear contralto voice, "Where is my cheiromantist?" (from "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: A Study of Duty" by Oscar Wilde in Murder Mayhem Short Stories)
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