Clan Destine Press Blog — Jack Fennell

We're happy to work with Jack Fennell again and hope you enjoy his story in Clamour and Mischief. You can hear Jack reading from his tale, "The Song of Crows," on our YouTube channel. * The most unexpected titbit I learned had nothing to do with corvids, as it happens: in the 19th century, the Hill of Tara was believed by some to be the burial place of the Ark of the Covenant. This theory was held by the British Israelites, who believed that the peoples of Britain and Ireland were descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and...

For The Only One in the World, Jack Fennell brings us "The Path of Truth." Below Jack shared the joys of writing a Sherlockian tale set in his native Ireland, and what he loved the most about it. What is the most unexpected tidbit you learned while writing your story? The most unexpected tidbit I learned while writing "The Path of Truth" was that the number of shipwrecks off the Irish coast actually declined over the course of the 19th century. As was the case with every other industry at the time, the vast majority of shipping businesses came to be headquartered in London,...