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4/6/25

The Fifth Tumbler (1936) by Clyde B. Clason

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Clyde B. Clason was an American copywriter, trade magazine editor and author of ten once very popular, critically acclaimed Van Dinean det...
4/3/25

The Hit List: Top 10 Locked Room Mystery Novels That Need to Be Reprinted

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In 2022, I posted an addendum to Nick Fuller's " Detective Stories to Reprint " entitled " Curiosity is Killing the Cat:...
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3/31/25

Logic Games: Q.E.D. vol. 42-43 by Motohiro Katou

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The first story from Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. vol. 42, "Escher Hotel," brings Sou Touma and Kana Mizuhara to the titular hotel...
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3/27/25

Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone (2022) by Benjamin Stevenson

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The traditional, Golden Age-style detective story has seen a tremendous resurgence over the past ten years spurred on by the fortunate concu...
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3/23/25

Murder at the Open Air Museum (1954) by Ine van Etten

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It's been awhile since I poked around the vague, difficult to pin down "classical period" of the Dutch detective story, which ...
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3/19/25

Strange Pictures (2022) by Uketsu

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I noted in the 2024 roundup post, " Murder in Retrospect ," Pushkin Vertigo had begun to expand their catalog of Japanese detectiv...
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3/16/25

The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine (2021) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

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In 2020, P.J. Fitzsimmons debuted his series of humorous, lighthearted historical locked room “cozies” about the bantering, snooping idler-...
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