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Not a Ghost to Be Found: "The Name on the Window" (1951) by Edmund Crispin" Edmund Crispin " was the pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery, a classical musician, composer, conductor, anthologist and mystery writer, who has...
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London's Glory (2015) by Christopher FowlerChristopher Fowler was a British author of some fifty novels and short story collections, covering everything from fantasy, horror and...
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Death Going Down (1954) by María Angélica BoscoMaría Angélica Bosco was an Argentinian novelist, essayist, translator and mystery writer who won the Emecé prize for her first detective...
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Thou Shell of Death (1936) by Nicholas BlakeLast time, I reviewed a snowy, seasonal short story, " A Problem in White " (1949), written by the British Poet Laureate, Cecil Day-Lewis, who...
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Cold, Steely Logic: "A Problem in White" (1949) by Nicholas BlakeCecil Day-Lewis was a former schoolteacher, full-time writer and British Poet Laureate, from 1968 until 1972, whose poetic pursuits and income...
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The Christmas Miracle Crimes (2023) by A. CarverBack in August, I posted a huge, ungainly retrospective of everyone's favorite subset of the traditional detective story, " The Locked Room...
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The Kindaichi Case Files: Death TV by Yozaburo Kanari and Fumiya SatoI'm consistently about two months, give or take a week or two, ahead on schedule with enough blog-posts and reviews queued to occasionally slip...
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Inspector De Klerck and the Unwanted Death (2023) by P. DieudonnéRechercheur De Klerck en de ongewenste dood ( Inspector De Klerck and the Unwanted Death , 2023) is the ninth novel by the increasingly...
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Through Three Rooms (1907) by Sven Elvestad (a.k.a. Stein Riverton)Sven Elvestad, " sybarite extraordinaire ," was a Norwegian journalist, essayist and an industrious mystery writer who penned over a hundred...
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Monkey See, Monkey Murder (2023) by James Scott ByrnsideThe 1920s began in the United States with an amendment to the constitution banning the sale of beer, wine and spirits, effective January 19,...
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Death Walks in Eastrepps (1931) by Francis Beeding" Francis Beeding " was the shared pseudonym of two writers, John Palmer and Hilary St. George Saunders, who collaborated on more than thirty...
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Scientists and Sorcerers: Q.E.D. vol. 31-32 by Motohiro KatouI closed out last month with a selection of favorite cases from the detective series of the 21st century, " The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Cases...
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Poison Unknown (1939) by Max DalmanNot much known today about " Max Dalman ," born Max Dalman Binns, except that he was an journalist, publisher and the author of fifteen mystery...
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The Siren's Call (1998) by Paul HalterPaul Halter 's Le cri de la siréne ( The Siren's Call , 1998) is the 12th novel to feature his amateur criminologist, but chronologically,...
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The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Cases from Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. vol. 1-25Back in 2018, I began reading and reviewing Motohiro Katou 's Q.E.D. series centering on an introverted, teenage polymath, Sou Touma, who...
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Death on Bastille Day (1981) by Pierre SiniacPierre-Mitsos Zakariadis was a French crime writer who authored over forty novels and short story collections, " stories with surprising and...
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The Golden Box (1942) by Frances CraneFrances Crane , " a small town girl who became a sophisticated world traveler ," was an American mystery novelist who wrote thirty...
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The Caves of Steel (1953/54) by Isaac AsimovOnce upon a time, in the 1950s, the detective genre received a distinguished visitor from outer space, Isaac Asimov , who came as an ambassador...
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Bughouse Chess: "The Pawns of Death" (1974) by Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey WallmannBill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallmann's "The Pawns of Death" originally appeared in the August, 1974, issue of the short-lived, quarterly...
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Blood from a Stone (1945) by Ruth Sawtell WallisRuth Sawtell Wallis was an American academic, physical anthropologist and author who enjoyed a promising, but regrettably short-lived, stint...
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Blogging Gone Wrong: Case Closed, vol. 87 by Gosho AoyamaThe 87th volume of Gosho Aoyama's Case Closed series begins, traditionally, with the concluding chapters to the story that left the...
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The Case of the Dead Man Gone (1961) by Christopher BushChristopher Bush 's The Case of the Dead Man Gone (1961) is the third of the last ten Ludovic Travers mysteries published during the...
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The Hit List: Top 10 Fascinating World War II Detective NovelsLast March, I cobbled together " The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Reprints from Dean Street Press " and intended to make "The Hit List" a...
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The Perfect Insider (1996) by MORI HiroshiBack in 2020, I reviewed MORI Hiroshi's " Sekit ō no yane kazan " ("The Rooftop Ornaments of Stone Ratha," 1999), a short story from the...
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The Devil's Flute Murders (1951/53) by Seishi YokomizoPushkin Vertigo has since 2015 been publishing translations of crime-and detective classics from all around the world, Argentina, France,...
