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8/24/25

It's About Impossible Crime (2025) by James Scott Byrnside

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Last time we heard of James Scott Byrnside was a short story, "The Silent Steps of Murder," posted on his blog as an appetizer to...
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8/20/25

This is Murder, Mr. Jones (1943) by Timothy Fuller

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Last month, I looked at Timothy Fuller's fifth and final Jupiter Jones novel, Keep Cool, Mr. Jones (1950), which appeared after a seve...
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8/17/25

Dead to Rights: "Captain Leopold and the Ghost-Killer" (1974) by Edward D. Hoch

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Edward D. Hoch 's "Captain Leopold and the Ghost-Killer," originally appeared in the August, 1974, issue of Ellery Queen's...
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8/13/25

Strange Houses (2021) by Uketsu

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Back in March, I reviewed Henna e ( Strange Pictures , 2022) written by the pseudonymous Japanese horror and mystery Youtuber, "Uketsu...
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8/9/25

The Laughing Buddha Murders (1944) by Richard Foster

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Back in February, I reviewed Kendell "Ken" Foster Crossen's The Case of the Phantom Fingerprints (1945), a fun and pulpy impo...
8/5/25

Men for Pieces (1949) by Brian Flynn

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Brian Flynn 's Men for Pieces (1949), thirty-sixth entry in the Anthony Bathurst series, marks Flynn's second return to print after...
8/1/25

Job Hunting: "The Man Who Talked with Spirits" (1943) by Herbert Brean

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Last month, I reread Herbert Brean's Wilders Walk Away (1948), which disappointed the first time round, but turned out to be quite good...
7/28/25

Mathematical Goodbye (1996) by MORI Hiroshi

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The BBB began serializing MORI Hiroshi 's Warawanai sugakusha ( Mathematical Goodbye , 1996), third novel in the S&M series, in th...
7/24/25

Keep Cool, Mr. Jones (1950) by Timothy Fuller

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Timothy Fuller was a member of the class of 1936 at Harvard and the son of Richard Fuller, head of Boston's Old Corner Book Store, who ...
7/20/25

Wilders Walk Away (1948) by Herbert Brean

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Herbert Brean 's debuted as a mystery writer with Wilders Walk Away (1948) and, according to Curt Evans, the praise it received from An...
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7/16/25

The Aluminum Turtle (1960) by Baynard Kendrick

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Baynard Kendrick 's The Aluminum Turtle (1960), alternatively titled The Spear Gun Murders , is the eleventh, and penultimate, novel in...
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