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The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Reprints from Dean Street PressIf you're a casual mystery reader who looked at our little niche corner on the internet, you might get the impression that the prevailing belief...
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Window of Opportunity: "The Riddle of the Brass Band" (1934) by Stuart PalmerBack in November, I reread Stuart Palmer's " The Riddle of the Whirling Lights " (1935), collected in Hildegarde Withers: Uncollected Riddles...
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Prague Fatale (2011) by Philip KerrPhilip Kerr was a British author who garnered wide success with his World War II thriller series about Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther, Kriminal...
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The Whistling Hangman (1937) by Baynard KendrickThis year, Otto Penzler's American Mystery Classics is reprinting one of my two favorite Baynard Kendrick detective novels, Blind Man's...
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The Wrong Letter (1926) by Walter S. MastermanWalter S. Masterman was an English fiction writer who dabbled in horror, fantasy, science-fiction and detective stories, twenty-six novels in...
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The Swinging Death (1948) by Brian FlynnBrian Flynn placed his thirty-fifth Anthony Bathurst novel, The Swinging Death (1948), among " the best of my humbler contributions...
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The King's Chamber: "The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" (1990) by Lawrence BlockLast time, I discussed Lawrence Block's thirteenth entry in the Bernie Rhodenbarr series, The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown (2022), which...
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The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown (2022) by Lawrence BlockOnce upon a time, I was quite the priggish, fundamentally-minded purist who viewed the post-WWII landscape of the crime-and detective genre as...
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Drawn from Memory: Q.E.D. vol. 21-22 by Motohiro KatouSomehow, despite my best intentions, I never seem to get on reading Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. without spluttering starts and stops, which tend...
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Case for Three Detectives (1936) by Leo BruceLast month, I half-excitedly alluded in a short story compilation post, " Locked and Loaded, Part 3: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and...
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Mr. Diabolo (1960) by Anthony LejeuneEdward Anthony Thompson, better known during his lifetime as " Anthony Lejeune ," was a British political writer, syndicated columnist, editor,...
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Death Within the Evil Eye (2019) by Masahiro ImamuraTwo years ago, Locked Room International published an eagerly anticipated translation of Masahiro Imamura 's Shijinso no satsujin ( Death...
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The Toledo Dagger (1927) by Robert BrennanRobert Brennan was an Irish writer, journalist and a founder of The Irish Press newspaper who was not only active in the republican movement,...
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Firebird (2011) by Jack McDevittIn 2021, I began a small expedition into science-fiction territory with the Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath series, written by Jack McDevitt ,...
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Rooting Out Evil: "Lars Blom and His Disappearing Gun" (1857/63) by August BlancheAugust Blanche was a Swedish journalist, politician, playwright and novelist who not only dabbled in detective fiction, decades before Sir...
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The Girl with the Hole in Her Head (1949) by Hampton StoneLast month, I reviewed The Real Gone Goose (1959) by Aaron Marc Stein, a prolific American crime-and detective writer, who produced over a...
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Close Quarters (1947) by Michael GilbertMichael Gilbert was a British solicitor, author, schoolteacher and veteran who, beginning in the 1930s, served with the Royal Horse Artillery...
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The Hanging Captain (1932) by Henry WadeSo it must be admitted that January has been pretty average so far, quality-wise, having discussed two of Paul Doherty's e-novellas of...
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More Than Zero: Case Closed, vol. 84 by Gosho AoyamaGosho Aoyama's 84th volume of Case Closed ( Detective Conan ) traditionally begins with the concluding chapters to the case that closed out...
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Death by Marriage (1959) by E.G. CousinsThere's not much to be found online about Edmund George Cousins except that he was born in Tientsin, China, but " moved to England at an early...
