tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post4970237278713944829..comments2024-03-17T02:38:18.796+01:00Comments on Beneath the Stains of Time: The Thirteenth Bullet (1948) by Marcel LanteaumeTomCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-63543495818869674312020-12-30T11:29:04.471+01:002020-12-30T11:29:04.471+01:00Just remember that the main attraction of these pu...Just remember that the main attraction of these pulp-style locked room mysteries isn't the meticulous, Carr-like plotting or sharp clueing. It's their wild, untamed imagination and innovative ideas. Fearn's <i>Thy Arm Alone</i> is not flawless as a novel, but has a unique, once-in-a-lifetime solution elevating it slightly above the status of a mere pulp mystery. He also elevated himself with <i>Pattern of Murder</i>. One of his best! TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-27732471301021069122020-12-30T11:25:47.050+01:002020-12-30T11:25:47.050+01:00Hope you like it!Hope you like it!TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-36301285107430602372020-12-29T09:36:22.439+01:002020-12-29T09:36:22.439+01:00I've not read Fearn, but he's on my radar....I've not read Fearn, but he's on my radar. I think I might put something by him on the "sooner rather than later" list with <i>Goodnight Irene</i>.Kacey Crainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13492997736737601983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-21167540250487751942020-12-29T05:22:12.903+01:002020-12-29T05:22:12.903+01:00This one sounds great. I have just purchased on yo...This one sounds great. I have just purchased on your recommendation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-71077538483369592512020-12-28T22:38:04.128+01:002020-12-28T22:38:04.128+01:00I really enjoyed this one and look forward to what...I really enjoyed this one and look forward to what LRI will bring us in 2021.TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-55379180779276839572020-12-28T22:36:54.968+01:002020-12-28T22:36:54.968+01:00Lost manuscripts have become somewhat of an obsess...Lost manuscripts have become somewhat of an obsession over the years. The fact that nothing of them survives makes them all the more alluring, but there's still a small flicker of hope. Time travel! I'm sure a time traveling salvage operation in the future is how the manuscripts went missing in the first place. ;)<br /><br />Have you read Fearn? He might have been a second-string mystery writer, but he was the undisputed master of the pulp-style impossible crime story. TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-2985117188041693282020-12-28T08:49:03.424+01:002020-12-28T08:49:03.424+01:00This looks like a very good book and I look forwar...This looks like a very good book and I look forward to reading it. I'm glad to see the crazy pulp-styled sort of locked-room mystery getting more attention. Done right, and it sounds like Lanteaume did, they can be really unforgettable. <br /><br />I almost wish you hadn't written about those burned manuscripts, though. I mean, I'd have read about them eventually, but I'll be having nightmares about them tonight... If only there was someone like the Emperor Augustus, who stopped Virgil's Aeneid from being burnt.Kacey Crainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13492997736737601983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5516189026477178777.post-72220891747757311052020-12-27T23:44:26.508+01:002020-12-27T23:44:26.508+01:00I appreciate the great review and I'm working ...I appreciate the great review and I'm working on getting the rights to the other two.<br /><br />John P.John Pugmirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12370413146195052806noreply@blogger.com