tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post2201805971246950334..comments2024-03-27T22:32:02.739+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: Dessert with Bullets (1954) by W.H. van EemlandtTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-20690052719184995582020-10-25T14:54:04.611+01:002020-10-25T14:54:04.611+01:00Oh, you said nefarious. I somehow read that as mar...Oh, you said nefarious. I somehow read that as marvelous... TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-13933831889455801002020-10-24T08:47:20.215+02:002020-10-24T08:47:20.215+02:00Sorry, my mistake. Your nefarious plot. It is tell...Sorry, my mistake. Your nefarious <i>plot</i>. It is telling, is it not, that you object to scheme, but not to nefarious. Very suspicious...Kacey Crainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13492997736737601983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-33279855888664990062020-10-23T21:57:04.617+02:002020-10-23T21:57:04.617+02:00I don't scheme. Vulgarians scheme. I plot. The...I don't scheme. Vulgarians scheme. I plot. There's an importance difference between the two. ;D<br /><br />The best case scenario, for non-Dutch readers, is a translation for all three of Cor Docter's Daan Vissering mysteries, because they form a neat little set of detective novels tackling the whodunit, locked room and dying message. Honestly, <i>Droeve poedel in Delfshaven</i> is even better than <i>Koude vrouw in Kralingen</i>. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-5269488943044749082020-10-23T21:54:30.788+02:002020-10-23T21:54:30.788+02:00Storming Vertigo is like laying siege to your own ...Storming Vertigo is like laying siege to your own castle. What we need to do is turn one of those respectable publishers into a vassal and force them translate non-English detectives as an annual tribute. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-54744646302221093452020-10-23T16:24:08.221+02:002020-10-23T16:24:08.221+02:00Neat, a floor plan (and one that's not entirel...Neat, a floor plan (and one that's not entirely useless), this book sounds better and bet...Hold on a minute! I see what you're doing! You're trying to make this book sound so interesting, that I'll have to learn Dutch and read it. Well your nefarious scheme wont work!...<i>Although</i>, Dutch and English <i>are</i> closely related, so maybe I could study it just a little...<br /><br /><i>Koude vrouw in Kralingen</i> is the Dutch mystery novel I'd most like to see translated. (So much so that, even knowing that I couldn't read it, I put it on my list of books to keep an eye out for.) And I've very much regreted being unable to read the Books story that was published in EQMM. Really should track that down one of these days.<br /><br />(And sorry if there're a bunch of typos. I usually preview before submiting a comment, but when I tried to just now, it ate my comment and I had to retype it from memory.)Kacey Crainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13492997736737601983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-40317971106126590862020-10-23T14:56:50.541+02:002020-10-23T14:56:50.541+02:00Shall we storm the halls of Pushkin Press?Shall we storm the halls of Pushkin Press?Mrs. Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17137502929195309863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-46982954221623687402020-10-23T11:40:46.680+02:002020-10-23T11:40:46.680+02:00"I like mysteries where it seems like the kil..."<i>I like mysteries where it seems like the killer can't be sure who they're going to kill. It presents so many possibilities in the hands of a skilled author.</i>"<br /><br /><i>Dessert with Bullets</i> also has a detailed floor plan to help the reader get a clear picture of the crime scene and it's not entirely useless, but hasten to add that you have to like Crofts and Rhode in order to appreciate and enjoy Van Eemlandt. <br /><br />From all the Dutch locked room mysteries, Cor Docter's <i>Koude vrouw in Kralingen</i> (<i>Cold Woman in Kralingen</i>) is perfect for LRI. A fine example of the <i>politieroman</i> with a completely original locked room-trick, which I've never seen used before or since. Books/Van Doorn also wrote some of the best Dutch locked room novels, but they're perhaps a little too modern for LRI. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-27953800155191241772020-10-23T11:36:16.021+02:002020-10-23T11:36:16.021+02:00Evil? I'm doing god's work over here! How ...Evil? I'm doing god's work over here! How else will these books ever get translated, if nobody outside this country even know they exist? This is why the next review has a list of Dutch detective novels that deserve to be translated. So stay tuned. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-12703597418466179212020-10-23T10:45:20.078+02:002020-10-23T10:45:20.078+02:00If you keep alerting us to the existence of these ...If you keep alerting us to the existence of these wonderful sounding untranslated mysteries, I'm going to be sorely tempted to start learning Dutch! Which wouldn't be good, as I already have two(ish) languages that I'm working on. I don't need <i>another</i> one! :P<br /><br />It's really extremely irritating that I can't read this, as the puzzle is sounding more and more intriguing the more I think about it. I like mysteries where it seems like the killer can't be sure who they're going to kill. It presents so many possibilities in the hands of a skilled author.<br /><br />What I would like is for LRI or Pushkin to start translating some Dutch mystery novels. Cor Docter, M. P. O. Brooks, Aster Berkhof, and now van Eemlandt; I'd very much like to take their works off of the "I can't read them" list.Kacey Crainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13492997736737601983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-52309987577342921062020-10-22T14:58:48.300+02:002020-10-22T14:58:48.300+02:00TomCat this post was so evil of you! The excitemen...TomCat this post was so evil of you! The excitement of a new author set before me...only to find that his books aren't available in English! Lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704356891652531467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-4881018364893351022020-10-22T11:47:04.541+02:002020-10-22T11:47:04.541+02:00Good news. The next review is of another obscure D...Good news. The next review is of another obscure Dutch detective from the 1940s and is an authentic GAD novel. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-26437377694655125732020-10-22T01:20:43.523+02:002020-10-22T01:20:43.523+02:00Nice find! Like you, I always like it when a Dutch...Nice find! Like you, I always like it when a Dutch language book proves to be up to par with more famous English and American counterparts.Christophehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978885973806549838noreply@blogger.com