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| | I am am currently carrying out research into Locked Room Mysteries and having gone to the usual sources: collections edited by Otto Penzler, Mike Ashley and Martin Edwards, I was very pleased to discover a new source for analysis.Ye Olde Book of Locked Room Conundrums, edited by JJ (ofhttps://theinvisibleevent.wordpress.com/ ) contains fifteen stories, only one...
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| | The Reading by the Numbers Challenge is the reading challenge at its most basic--just track everything you read. Anything counts--graphi...
| | mysteriesahoy.com
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| | A few months ago I read and wrote about Martin Edwards' The Golden Age of Murder. It's a fantastic look at the creation of the Detection Club and the contribution its members made to developing the detective fiction genre. It's full of fascinating details about those writers, many of whose work I already knew and...
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| Set in 1958 this tightly plotted, precise and polished mystery/detective story is very set in its time. Tokyo Express by Seich? Matsumoto, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is a masterwork of minimalist craftsmanship. No detail is extraneous. No scene could be cut. The setting starts as a thriller more than a murder mystery, but...