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5/4/26

The Frankenstein Factory (1975) by Edward D. Hoch

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Edward D. Hoch was the King of Short Stories, the Man of a Thousand Tales of Mystery and Detection, but, during his five decade run, Hoch a...
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4/30/26

Murder in the Tomb (1937) by Lucian Austin Osgood

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Over the years, I picked up a curious collection of so-called genre curiosities, alternative classics and a couple of neglected gems along t...
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4/25/26

The Double Turn (1956) by Carol Carnac

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Last year, the British Library Crime Classics reprinted E.C.R. Lorac's Murder As a Fine Art (1953), published as by "Carol Carnac,...
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4/22/26

Locked and Loaded, Part 7: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and Locked Room Mystery Stories

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So lately, I noticed an unaccountable, unacceptable dearth in locked room and impossible crime reviews which needed immediate correction to ...
4/18/26

The Ark (2022) by Haruo Yuki

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When compiling and cobbling together " The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Hybrid Mysteries ," I mulled over including a disaster-themed...
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4/14/26

The Darker the Night (1949) by Herbert Brean

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There are a handful of dusty, timeworn tropes and cliches that make detective fans despair when they rear their ugly head in a mystery, nove...
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4/12/26

Inspector De Klerck and Tears for Valentine (2026) by P. Dieudonné

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Recently, E-Pulp published the 14th title in P. Dieudonné 's Rotterdam Police series, Rechercheur De Klerck en tranen om Valentijn ( I...
4/10/26

Cross Marks the Spot (1933) by James Ronald

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Last year, the Moonstone Press completed their ambitious, massive reprinting project of James Ronald 's nearly forgotten, long out-of-p...
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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