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#500: Making an Entrance to Remember via The Fourth Door (1987) by Paul...

I am reliably informed by the product page on Amazon that I purchased the Kindle edition of The Fourth Door (1987, tr. 1999) — the first Paul Halter novel I ever read — on 19th May 2013.  After nearly...

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#504: Little Fictions – ‘The Helm of Hades’ (2019) by Paul Halter [trans....

Who doesn’t love a list?  No-one who matters, that’s who.  And since I’ve now read all twenty of the translated short stories of Paul Halter it seems inevitable that I should have my own preferences...

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#546: The 10 Types of Impossible Crime – Categories and Titles from Our Talk...

After being on something of an enforced hiatus for a little while, The Men Who Explain Miracles, the occasional podcast run by Dan from The Reader is Warned and myself, returned yesterday for a live...

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#547: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘The Hiding Place’, a.k.a. ‘As...

Another month of me taking advantage of the wonderful resource that is the British Library to investigate stories from Robert Adey’s Locked Room Murders (1992) — and we begin with an author I was very...

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#548: The Seventh Guest (1935) by Gaston Boca [trans. John Pugmire 2018]

The recent, very exciting publication of the brand new Paul Halter novel The Gold Watch (2019, tr. 2019) served to remind me that I still hadn’t read Locked Room International’s previous publication, a...

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#550: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘The Phantom Killer’ (1946)...

Something a little different this week, potential threats of legal action notwithstanding. Nigel Morland is a name that crops up a lot in my researches around potential classic crime fiction, even if...

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#553: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘Murder Game’, a.k.a. ‘The...

It’s undeniable that I have a slightly unusual relationship with some accepted classic GAD authors and do not necessarily always line up with the accepted wisdom where, say, Ngaio Marsh, Gladys...

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#556: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘The 51st Sealed Room’, a.k.a....

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been slowly working my way through the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators series, the first tranche of which were written by Robert Arthur, Jr. Arthur did...

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#559: Little Fictions – Curiosities from Adey: ‘Murder at the Automat’ (1937)...

The final two stories for this month to be plucked out of the listings in Robert Adey’s reference bible Locked Room Murders (1992) sees a return to the work of Cornell Woolrich, who was discussed on...

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#575: The Gold Watch (2019) by Paul Halter [trans. John Pugmire 2019]

Similar to how Alfred Hitchcock’s two version of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934/1956) use the same core ideas but differ in details, the motifs Paul Halter returns to in The Gold Watch (2019, tr....

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#611: The Seventh Hypothesis (1991) by Paul Halter [trans. John Pugmire 2012]

Aaah, Christmas; time to drop into the comforting arms of the ones we know and love.  I tried to mix things up a bit this year, starting two Christmas mysteries to review this week…but neither really...

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#624: Bob’s Yer Uncle – Locked Room Murders Supplement (2019) ed. Brian Skupin

The reprinting of Robert Adey’s Locked Room Murders (2nd ed., 1991) at the end of 2018 was a delightful turn-up for those of us who had been dreaming of owning that reference bible.  And once the...

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#638: Death Out of Nowhere (1945) by Alexis Gensoul & Charles Grenier [trans....

Seventeen. John Pugmire has now, through Locked Room International, published 17 previously-non-Anglophone books from the Roland Lacourbe-curated Locked Room Library list, all but one being his own...

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#658: The Flying Boat Mystery (1935) by Franco Vailati [trans. Igor Longo 2019]

Eleven of the twelve passengers in a boat plane making a trip across Italy watch the twelfth head to the front of the plane and lock himself in the tiny toilet cubicle. Thirty minutes later, when he...

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#671: “At this point, everything seems too far-fetched to be taken...

A triptych of needs are being met here: firstly a last-minute replacement for the Modern Locked Room Mystery for TomCat I’d intended to write about, secondly the addressing of a Paul Halter book not...

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 11: The Tropes of Detective Fiction [w’ James Scott...

The time has come again for some nerdy Golden Age Detection podcasting, and James Scott Byrnside is here to oblige with a discussion about some of the tropes we know and love from GAD fiction After...

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#735: Reprint of the Year – The Red Locked Room [ss] (2020) by Tetsuya...

So, the obvious question in light of this entry into the Reprint of the Year Awards 2020 as organised by Kate at CrossExaminingCrime is: can these stories originally published between 1954 and 1961 be...

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 19: Reissue! Repackage! Repackage! [w’ Various People]

On the back of the Reprint of the Year Award run by Kate at CrossExaminingCrime, I thought it might be interesting to see what those of us who submit titles for that undertaking would choose to bring...

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#91: The Moai Island Puzzle (1989) by Alice Arisugawa [trans. Ho-Ling Wong 2016]

Disclosure: I proof-read this book for Locked Room International in March 2016 Children, incarnations of The Doctor, phases of the moon…generally I try not to play favourites.  But if I had to pick...

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#98: One week until Paul Halter Day!

I have absolutely no doubt that Kate, Rich, Puzzle Doctor, and many others will do jobs far superior to anything I ever could in summarising yesterday’s hugely enjoyable Bodies from the Library and so...

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