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4/6/26

The Hit List: 10 More Non-English Detective Novels That Need to Be Translated

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In 2023, I posted " The Hit List: Top 10 Non-English Detective Novels That Need to Be Translated " going down a list of ten classi...
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4/2/26

The Snake of Luvercy (1926/27) by Maurice Renard

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John Pugmire passed away in 2024 and his death not only meant the end of Locked Room International , but also ended the steady stream of tr...
3/30/26

The Judges of Hades and Other Simon Ark Stories (1971) by Edward D. Hoch

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Decades before Crippen & Landru, Edward D. Hoch had about half a dozen collections of his voluminous detective fiction published, throu...
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3/26/26

Back for More: Q.E.D. iff vol. 1-2 by Motohiro Katou

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Last year, I finished Motohiro Katou 's first run of his flagship Q.E.D. series with a review of vol. 50 and " The Hit List: Top ...
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3/22/26

Puzzle in Porcelain (1945) by Elizabeth Gresham (writing as "Robin Grey")

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"Robin Grey" was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Fenner Gresham , of whom not much is known today, except that she was involved with th...
3/18/26

The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich (2023) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

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P.J. Fitzsimmons '  The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich (2023) is the sixth entry in the Anthony "Anty" Boisjoly series of Wo...
3/14/26

Panic Party: Case Closed, vol. 97 by Gosho Aoyama

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Gosho Aoyama 's 96th volume of Case Closed starts out, as is tradition, with the conclusion to the story that closed out the previous v...
3/10/26

Fear of Fear (1931) by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements

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Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements were an American husband-and-wife writing tandem, " of varied and prodigious talent ," whose o...
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3/6/26

Bad Weather: "The Rainy-Day Bandit" (1970) by Edward D. Hoch

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Edward D. Hoch 's "The Rainy-Day Bandit," originally published in the May, 1970, issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine ...
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3/2/26

The Locked Village and the Eight Tricks (2024) by Danro Kamosaki

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Last year, I discovered Danro Kamosaki 's "Murder in the Golden Age of Locked Rooms" series, translated by Mitsuda Madoy and ...
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