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10/18/25

Locked and Loaded, Part 6: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and Locked Room Mystery Stories

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For some reason, I thought the previous "Locked and Loaded" was posted earlier this year, somewhere around March, but “ Locked and...
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10/15/25

Straight to Your Heart: Case Closed, vol. 95 by Gosho Aoyama

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Gosho Aoyama 's 95th volume of Case Closed picks up where the previous, absolutely packed volume ended that was crammed with familiar f...
10/12/25

And Cauldron Bubble (1951) by Brian Flynn

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Brian Flynn 's And Cauldron Bubble (1951), thirty-ninth novel in the Anthony Bathurst series, begins with Lady Blanchflower being summo...
10/8/25

Murder as a Fine Art (1953) by Carol Carnac

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E.C.R. Lorac 's Murder as a Fine Art (1953), as by "Carol Carnac," is the ninth, or possibly tenth, title in the Chief Detect...
10/5/25

The Hit List: Top 7 Most Murderable "Victims" in Detective Fiction

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So over the past year, or two, the idea for a rogues' gallery of the classic detective fiction emerged from the comments left on some of...
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10/1/25

Last One to Leave (2022) by Benjamin Stevenson

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Benjamin Stevenson's first two Ernest Cunningham novels, Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone (2022) and Everyone on this Train is ...
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9/27/25

Black Lake Manor (2022) by Guy Morpuss

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For years, Jim Noy, of The Invisible Event , has been running an irregular, sporadic series of blog-posts, "A Little Help for My Friend...
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9/23/25

Reckoning at the Riviera Royale (2022) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

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P.J. Fitzsimmons '  Reckoning at the Riviera Royale (2022) is the fifth, of currently nine, novels starring Anthony "Anty" Bo...
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9/19/25

A Gumshoe with Sea Legs: "Death at the Porthole" (1938) and "The Eye" (1945) by Baynard Kendrick

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Baynard Kendrick is best known today for creating one of the most successful blind detectives in crime fiction, Captain Duncan Maclain, who...
9/15/25

Reunion with Murder (1941) by Timothy Fuller

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Reunion with Murder (1941) is Timothy Fuller 's third novel about Harvard man and amateur sleuth, Edmund "Jupiter" Jones, who...
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