tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post1154631158359783265..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: The Flying Boat Mystery (1935) by Franco VailatiTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-68658563328897198552019-11-25T00:40:21.442+01:002019-11-25T00:40:21.442+01:00Do you have an e-reader?
No. I suppose I'll ...<em>Do you have an e-reader? </em><br /><br />No. I suppose I'll have to give in eventually. I don't have a reliable internet connection so I imagine going the e-book route would be a nightmare.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-66776565583871847712019-11-22T11:47:48.925+01:002019-11-22T11:47:48.925+01:00Do you have an e-reader? I've resisted it for ...Do you have an e-reader? I've resisted it for years, but an e-reader has its perks and, yes, its drawbacks. But if you balance hard copies with e-books, you'll mostly get the perks. For example, Black Heath has a massive, ever-growing catalog of classic detective novels and they're only a buck a piece. You also the growing list of books in the public domain. I believe the Australian website of Gutenberg has some titles by Max Afford. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-17639930380316300392019-11-21T01:57:44.741+01:002019-11-21T01:57:44.741+01:00The Flying Boat Mystery sounds terrific, but unfor...<em>The Flying Boat Mystery</em> sounds terrific, but unfortunately it's way out of my price range.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-58987759678259174802019-11-17T20:56:31.300+01:002019-11-17T20:56:31.300+01:00I reviewed The Murdered Banker back in 2016 and Ho...I reviewed <i>The Murdered Banker</i> back in 2016 and <i>Hotel of the Three Roses</i> is on the big pile, which Kate described as a quasi-locked room mystery, but don't believe he ever wrote a full-blown impossible crime novel. At least not one that's currently available in English. <br /><br />I'm more excited Pushkin Vertigo has started translating Japanese mystery writers like Seichi Yokomizo and Soji Shimada. Japanese have been such good custodians of the traditional detective story!TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-15177518137870411292019-11-17T20:46:04.496+01:002019-11-17T20:46:04.496+01:00@KenB
Rue Morgue Press wasn't a failure! They...@KenB<br /><br />Rue Morgue Press wasn't a failure! They paved the way for the current renaissance era of reprints and were in business for some 15 years, but closed down due to personal circumstances. If weren't for Enid's passing and flood damages, they'd probably still be reprinting obscure gems today. I miss the Rue Morgue Press! <br /><br />@JJ<br /><br />Yes! And why publish them one at a time? Why not publish a volume with three of these short novels? You know, purely for scholarly reasons. :) TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-23645725026020323482019-11-16T16:27:59.557+01:002019-11-16T16:27:59.557+01:00I left a comment earlier, but it vanished upon pub...I left a comment earlier, but it vanished upon publishing. Most frustrating. Anyway, my skim of your review was so careful that I missed the "Italian Rupert Penny" bit -- and, good heavens, let's get onto sharpish, eh? What's Igor Longo doing this weekend? Someone phone him and find out...JJ @ The Invisible Eventhttps://theinvisibleevent.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-83024879062112056642019-11-16T03:21:36.928+01:002019-11-16T03:21:36.928+01:00International Polygonics was an interesting ventur...International Polygonics was an interesting venture actually. They were originally a maker of high end jigsaw puzzles. They branched out into GAD! Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207803092348071005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-7771737744660237762019-11-16T03:19:21.554+01:002019-11-16T03:19:21.554+01:00Yeah. After International Polygonics wrapped up in...Yeah. After International Polygonics wrapped up in the 90s I thought that a lot of GAD would be out of print pretty much permanently. The failure of Rue Morgue Press was sad confirmation. But suddenly there is so much!<br /><br />If you are in the US see if your library has Hoopla. There is a lot of stuff available there. Most of Penzler's books for instance. <br />Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08207803092348071005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-39110551490569943412019-11-15T23:12:54.545+01:002019-11-15T23:12:54.545+01:00Pushkin Vertigo did a nice job of reviving the wor...Pushkin Vertigo did a nice job of reviving the work of Italian mystery writer Augusto De Angelis, who I think wrote one locked room novel. But I'm unsure if any of those Pushkin reprinted is classifiable as one. Have you read any of them? I only remember reading reviews on Kate Jackson' s blog and nowhere else. I own all of them, but have only read THE MURDERED MATHEMATICIAN and I enjoyed it. Not traditional detection as you would like it, but filled with passion and emotion. The best part was that it did have aone unexpected twist in the end.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-14309433118977040242019-11-15T21:21:38.745+01:002019-11-15T21:21:38.745+01:00What? Nothing to say about the untranslated Italia...What? Nothing to say about the untranslated Italian counterpart of Rupert Penny? <br /><br />"<i>Still, the notion of needing to be popular in order to succeed is all to prevalent today (publishing is a business, after all).</i>"<br /><br />Yeah, publishers today are too often focused on short-term success with an immediate payoff. Understandable, because, as you said, publishing is a business, but I prefer the Golden Age model. When publishers allowed writers to grow and gather an audience around them. Sometimes that would go no further than a niche audience and the lending libraries, but it gave us a massive, almost incomprehensibly large, backlog of detective fiction of every stripe and hue. <br /><br />But that's the detective fanboy with a yen for obscure mysteries talking. Thankfully, the internet age gave us specialized publishers like Dean Street Press and LRI. <br /><br />"<i>It is indeed a sad state of affairs when we hear of the way the classical detective novel was so looked down upon, and at times actively stifled, in certain eras.</i>"<br /><br />Never forget how lucky you American, British, French and Japanese mystery readers are. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-41993364785403714202019-11-15T13:12:46.971+01:002019-11-15T13:12:46.971+01:00It is indeed a sad state of affairs when we hear o...It is indeed a sad state of affairs when we hear of the way the classical detective novel was so looked down upon, and at times actively stifled, in certain eras. Still, the notion of needing to be popular in order to succeed is all to prevalent today (publishing is a business, after all). The idea of "praising the tosh written by their own pets" all-too-accurately describes the way the work of certain writers is fawned over by writers who have had their own work fawned over by the recipient of the praise. I'd say bloggers are the only ones with any objectivity, but some people will say anything to secure a steady stream of free review copies... Ah, well, t'was ever thus.<br /><br />As to the book, I've skimmed your review since I'm coming to it myself (hopefully by the end of the year); pleased to see you rate it, hopefully I'll share your enthusiasm and an Italian impossible crime renaissance will come about in due course :)JJ @ The Invisible Eventhttps://theinvisibleevent.comnoreply@blogger.com