And a follow up question

[james_davis_nicoll]

Are there any cozies set in generation starships? If not, why not?

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[timill]

Best cite I can find is:
"I have always enjoyed historical fiction and have recently taken up reading detective fiction, so The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives was hard to resist. The thirty stories included are arranged in chronological order, from a "locked room" mystery set in Australia in 35 000 BC and several stories set in classical Rome to a Sherlock Holmes imitation set in the 1920s, ..."

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

The mystery in the first tale being not who killed the victim, but rather who invented the room?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

So would the story in question be "Death in the Dawntime" by the late F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre?

Of which the author writes:

The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives,
a British anthology published in 1995, contains a story I wrote titled 'Death in the Dawntime': this is a murder mystery set in 40,000 bc, among the prehistoric Wuradjeri people of southeastern Australia. That story has some science-fictional elements, but I tried to keep it accurate in its depiction of the Wuradjeri. I'm currently writing a novel about the song-myths and culture of the Nunggubooyoo people in the northern outback.

I am a bit disappointed to learn that there are no actual mammoths involved. Also to learn that F. didn't make a career out of prehistoric detective stories.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed to learn there's not a mammoth detective, then.