tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post3994588089690534761..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: My Favorite Locked Room Mysteries II: Short Stories and NovellasTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-79699055052235302822014-04-28T02:41:23.953+02:002014-04-28T02:41:23.953+02:00I took the trouble to order a used copy of The Thi...I took the trouble to order a used copy of <i>The Third Bullet</i> by John Dickson Carr specifically to read "The House in Goblin Wood." (I know the book and short story collection was originally published under the "Carter Dickson" pseudonym, but my copy has "Carr" on the front cover.) I'm glad I did, and I'm also glad I resisted the temptation to peek near the ending.<br /><br />Without giving away spoilers, what makes "Goblin" unique is the method Carr uses to make this impossible crime possible (although it is brilliant) but how the expectations of the reader are completely turned around, and this has one of the most chilling endings of any impossible crime story.<br /><br />If the literary estate of J.D. Carr was smart, they'd put this story as a cheap single for Kindle and use it to lure readers to some of Carr's other works.Edward J. Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925008506185290162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-40805591754308247292012-07-23T15:42:39.946+02:002012-07-23T15:42:39.946+02:00Thanks! Have found copies of the first two alread...Thanks! Have found copies of the first two already, but the last one may take a while longer.JIMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-34438631124553894802012-07-22T20:47:18.602+02:002012-07-22T20:47:18.602+02:00David Stuart Davies in the anthology Vintage Myste...David Stuart Davies in the anthology <i>Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories</i>, Keith McCarthy in the December, 2011 issue of <i>The Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine</i> and Edogawa Rampo in <i>The Edogawa Rampo Reader</i> (the second half of the book has a few interesting essays by Rampo).TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-83111262215114360612012-07-22T18:51:41.419+02:002012-07-22T18:51:41.419+02:00Where can I find the stories by David Stuart Davie...Where can I find the stories by David Stuart Davies, Keith McCarthy, and Egodawa Rampo?JIMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-13724429791825839712012-07-20T11:35:03.652+02:002012-07-20T11:35:03.652+02:00Thanks for the tips, Christian, much appreciated!Thanks for the tips, Christian, much appreciated!TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-55038657445104078162012-07-20T10:54:57.423+02:002012-07-20T10:54:57.423+02:00Good list with most of the obvious suspects and so...Good list with most of the obvious suspects and some more obscure choices!<br /><br />I see that you've quite obviously checked out the main anthologies of Locked Rooms, so instead I'll recommend a few stories that haven't been collected in any English anthologies. Quite possibly you've already read them, but if not, I think you'll enjoy them.<br /><br />Fredric Brown "The Laughing Butcher"<br />Leonard Thompson "Close Shave"<br />Cornell Woolrich "Mystery in Room 913"<br />Eric Ambler "Case of the Overheated Flat"<br />Harry Kemelman "The Man on the Ladder"<br />Samuel Hopkins Adams "The Flying Death"<br />Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace "The Tea-Leaf"Christian_Henrikssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13013383718388416698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-46310870067957640352012-07-19T08:50:24.164+02:002012-07-19T08:50:24.164+02:00"The Impossible Murder" can be found in ..."The Impossible Murder" can be found in the anthology <i>Murder Impossible</i> and "The Long Way Down" in <i>The Locked Room Reader</i>. <br /><br />"The Problem of the Crowded Cemetery" is not the best of the Hawthorne stories, but good enough for this list and I have always been fond of it (first Hoch and all).TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-72001540468136748852012-07-18T22:04:18.065+02:002012-07-18T22:04:18.065+02:00A great list, TomCat, with my absolute favourite -...A great list, TomCat, with my absolute favourite - The House In Goblin Wood - included. Interested in your Hoch choices - are the two non-Hawthornes collected somewhere? And is Crowded Cemetery really the best Hawthorne story? I'd say there are many better - my favourite is the Haunted Bandstand.Puzzle Doctorhttp://classicmystery.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com