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7/3/24

Peril at End House (1932) by Agatha Christie

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Peril at End House (1932) is one of Agatha Christie 's often overlooked novels forever standing in the shadows of her famous, widely ce...
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6/30/24

Welcome to the Wünderkammer: C.M.B. vol. 1-2 by Motohiro Katou

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Motohiro Katou's C.M.B. is a companion to his Q.E.D. series starring Sou Touma's younger cousin, Sakaki Shinra, who's an orpha...
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6/26/24

Doctors in the Isolated Room (1996) by MORI Hiroshi

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Last year, the BBB finished the e-serialization of MORI Hiroshi 's celebrated debut work and first ever Mephisto Prize recipient, Sube...
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6/23/24

Sun, Sea and Murder (2024) by J.S. Savage

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In March, I reviewed J.S. Savage's fantastic debut, The Mystery of Treefall Manor (2023), patterned after the great detective novelists...
6/19/24

Water from a Stone: "The Sweating Statue" (1985) by Edward D. Hoch

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Edward D. Hoch 's "The Sweating Statue" is the third short story to feature his modern-day Father Brown character, Father Davi...
6/16/24

Who Goes Hang? (1958) by Stanley Hyland

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Stanley Hyland was a British TV producer for the BBC who worked on most of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's broadcasts from 1964 to 1970 a...
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6/12/24

The Clue in the Air (1917) by Isabel Ostrander

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Isabel Ostrander was an American socialite from a well-to-do New York family, of Dutch descent, who traveled and lived all over the world a...
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6/8/24

The Noh Mask Murder (1949) by Akimitsu Takagi

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Now, the perceptive among you may have noticed my love for the Japanese detective novels of the shin honkaku school, simply neo-classical o...
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6/4/24

Cops & Robbers: "The Theft of Cinderella's Slipper" (1987), "The Murder in Room 1010" (1987) and "The Theft of Leopold's Badge" (1991) by Edward D. Hoch

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Edward D. Hoch , the man of a thousand stories, was not only a prolific writer of short stories, who appeared in every issue of Ellery Queen...