Back in 2020, I posted the first "Locked and Loaded" blog-post reviewing five, or six, randomly picked, usually uncollected short ...

Last year, I came across the work of fan-lator Mitsuda Konno , formerly known as Mitsuda Madoy, who's translating first-rate Japanese de...

When patching together one of these lists, I always try to avoid the usual topic and opt for something slightly less obvious and original, ...

Milward Kennedy was an English civil servant, journalist, literary critic, reviewer and mystery writer, who was a founding member of the De...

Motohiro Katou's C.M.B. vol. 13 comprises of four, one-chapter stories starting with one of those human, heart-shaped puzzles, "Th...

Rev. Victor L. Whitechurch was an Anglican churchman, author and creator of Thorpe Hazell, a vegetarian railway enthusiast, who's one o...

I previously reviewed Ross Montgomery's The Murder at World's End (2025), a classically-styled, retro-Golden Age mystery, which is ...

Last year, Ross Montgomery , a British author of more than twenty children's books, debuted with his first novel for adults, The Murder...