Three months ago, Pushkin Vertigo released Yasuhiko Nishizawa 's Nanakai shinda otoko ( The Man Who Died Seven Times , 1995), translat...

Last year, Crippen & Landru published Tom Mead 's first collection of short stories, The Indian Rope Trick and Other Violent Entert...

At the turn of this century, Shizuko Natsuki was alongside Edogawa Rampo , Akimitsu Takagi and Seicho Matsumoto among the few Japanese mys...

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

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

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