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(Trans. Louise Heal Kawai. Originally published as Honjin satsujin jiken.) If I have any regrets so far in my journey through detective fiction, it is that I have mostly neglected the shin honkaku school of Japanese mystery writing even though I know from what little I've read of it that it is completely up my...
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This, my 200th post on this blog, will also be the 100th to be tagged with the subject 'Impossible Crimes' and -- since my very first was a review of Paul Halter's The Phantom Passage -- I thought I'd hold this milestone to look at the most recent Halter translation from John Pugmire's Locked Room...
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Nothing like a Paul Halter novel to bring me back to life. When The Gold Watch first dropped in 2019, the big headline was that the author had written a new novel - following a five year gap - and that it was being published in English immediately. That we got the new novel in...
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This past weekend, my Book Club tackled a title I have referred to in the past as "John Dickson Carr'sRoger Ackroyd" - this would be 1937'sThe Burning Court. I have spoken at length about the book before, but I have to mention that this month's meeting offered us the rare treat of having a guest...
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