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7/8/26

The Dairy Devil (1975) by Ton Vervoort

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Back in 2022, I concluded my run of reviews of the lamentably short-lived, surprisingly classically-styled Inspector Floris Jansen series wr...
7/4/26

Everyone in This Bank is a Thief (2026) by Benjamin Stevenson

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Last year, I tried the first of Benjamin Stevenson's Ernest Cunningham novels after some initial skepticism, but Everyone in My Family h...
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6/30/26

Jack the Poetical Private (1997) by MORI Hiroshi

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In 2013, the Breakthrough Bandwagon Books translated and published over half a dozen short stories by MORI Hiroshi, associate professor, en...
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6/26/26

Go with the Plan: Q.E.D. iff vol. 3-4 by Motohiro Katou

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The first, of two, stories making up Motohiro Katou 's Q.E.D. iff vol. 3, "Three Killers," concern three women, Kurotsu Yui, ...
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6/22/26

The Pelham Murder Case (1930) by Monte Barrett

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Percy Montgomery " Monte " Barrett was an American author, newspaperman and cartoon writer from Mitchell, Indiana, who co-created ...
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6/18/26

The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Reprints from Rue Morgue Press

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  This year marks the tenth anniversary of the permanent shuttering of our beloved, dearly departed Rue Morgue Press following a string of ...
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6/14/26

The Architecture of Murder (2026) by James Scott Byrnside

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Last year, James Scott Byrnside published It's About Impossible Crime (2025), a collection of original short stories, in which he paid...
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6/11/26

Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling (2023) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

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P.J. Fitzsimmons '  Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling (2023) is the seventh historical locked room comedy in the Anthony ...
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6/7/26

Strange Buildings (2023) by Uketsu

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Last year, I looked at two pictorial novels, Henna ie ( Strange Houses , 2021) and Henna e ( Strange Pictures , 2022), written and crafted...
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