The Examinations

Where Should You Start Reading?

Ten questions that map your existing assumptions to the dossiers in the comparative mystery-school corpus you'd probably find most interesting first. Not a tradition-fit quiz — a reading-order quiz.

This is a reading-order quiz, not a tradition-fit quiz. The corpus is roughly forty dossiers and you can't read them all at once. Answer ten questions about your existing assumptions and curiosities, and you'll get a suggested reading order — the three or four dossiers most likely to be useful to you first.

The quiz does not claim to match you to a tradition, to tell you what you "really are," or to authorize any operative practice. It maps your existing reading preferences to the dossiers you'd probably find most interesting. Take it again with different answers and you'll get different routes.

The dossiers linked from your results are descriptive, scholarly, and primary-source cited. None of them teach operative practice. If you want to actually do what a tradition does, the dossier will point you to the tradition's living teachers; the corpus itself is a reference resource, not a course of instruction. See the Research Ethics and Purpose page for the full discipline.