I started writing this blog on 1 April 2009, then under the name The Game is Afoot, in blogger and mainly in Spanish. Since then many things have happened that are almost impossible to summarise. However, I would like to take advantage of this anniversary to thank those who read it, either regularly or sporadically, for their support. I hope to continue writing A Crime is Afoot for many more years, and I trust that my future book notes will add something to a mere enumeration or compilation of my readings.
All best
José Ignacio
A Crime is Afoot 
Congratulations on 12 years of blogging, José Ignacio! That’s quite an accomplishment. I learn every time I visit your blog, and I wish you many more good years of blogging!
Thank you Margot! That’s very kind of you.
José – Congratulations on an impressive milestone. I am always impressed with GAD bloggers who make the time to educate others like me on books and authors I might otherwise never have known. Thank you.
Thank you, Scott! Am glad to have be of some help to you.
Congratulations on having served 12 years of your life sentence among us! I think Xavier, Ho-Ling and you have been doing this the longest of all of us.
Here’s to the next dozen years!
Thank you TomCat! And so that you can see it, as we say in Spanish.
That is a lot of blogging. Congratulations. I have enjoyed your reviews and author notes for about 10 years, and I hope you will continue blogging many more years, too.
TracyK at Bitter Tea & Mystery
Thank you very much TracyK! I enjoy your reviews as well and am looking forward to reading your reviews for many more years too.
Congratulations on this milestone, Jose! May the next thirteen years of blogging be even more pleasurable and rewarding than the first!
Thank you, Brad! I hope to become a better reviewer in the years to come.
Twelve years is quite an accomplishment – Congratulations!
Thank you, June!
Congratulations! I’ve been following you for about nine years and have learned a lot from your blog, especially your book notes about the various vintage mystery writers. Thanks and keep up the good work!
I very much appreciate your comment, FictionFan! Thank you very much.
Congratulations on reaching this milestone and thanks for the interesting reading! 🙂
Your blog serves me as an inspiration, Aidan. Thank you very much!
Congratulations, José! I have discovered your blog last year and it became one of my favorites! I hope you’ll have plenty of mysteries to read (and review) for years!
Very kind of you Gabriel! Thanks for your time!
Congratulations Jose Ignacio. Having been a blogger for over 11 years I appreciate your dedication. Even more I enjoy your posts. You have a unique style that provides information and analysis. All the best on future blogging.
Thank you old friend! We have already travelled this path together many years, and that is something I won’t forget.
Jose , Thank you actually. Duffers like me, who have been reading, reading, reading, for a long time (sixty-five years now for me) really do rely on bloggers like yourself, specialists more or less, to help us find what we’ve been missing. There’s a whole lot out there to peruse, and your essays and comments make the whole process a lot easier and more fun. Thanks for being here for us! And publishers and printers should get down on their knees every day before breakfast and give thanks for your good work.
I thank you, Pavel for your time to visit and comment on my blog. Even though your compliments are undeserved. I just put together what others have said before. On my blog roll you can find many blogs/bloggers far more interesting than A Crime is Afoot.