Beneath the Stains of Time: Every Roos Has Its Thorn: "Death is a Trouper" (1946) by Kelley Roos

Beneath the Stains of Time: Every Roos Has Its Thorn: "Death is a Trouper" (19...: Writing under the shared pseudonym " Kelley Roos ," William and Audrey Roos formed one of the best, cleverest and funniest writing...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hangman's Tree (1949) by Dorothy Cameron Disney

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hangman's Tree (1949) by Dorothy Cameron Disney: Dorothy Cameron Disney was an American journalist, writer and columnist whose column, "Can This Marriage Be Saved," ran for three...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Glass Tower Murders (2021) by Mikito Chinen

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Glass Tower Murders (2021) by Mikito Chinen: Last year, I came across the work of fan-lator Mitsuda Konno , formerly known as Mitsuda Madoy, who's translating first-rate Japanese de...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 5 Favorite Mystery Short-Shorts

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 5 Favorite Mystery Short-Shorts: When patching together one of these lists, I always try to avoid the usual topic and opt for something slightly less obvious and original, ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Half-Mast Murder (1930) by Milward Kennedy

Beneath the Stains of Time: Half-Mast Murder (1930) by Milward Kennedy: Milward Kennedy was an English civil servant, journalist, literary critic, reviewer and mystery writer, who was a founding member of the De...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder at the End of the World (2022) by Akane Araki

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder at the End of the World (2022) by Akane Araki: I previously reviewed Ross Montgomery's The Murder at World's End (2025), a classically-styled, retro-Golden Age mystery, which is ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in the Gilded Cage (1929) by Samuel Spewack

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in the Gilded Cage (1929) by Samuel Spewack: Samuel Spewack was a Ukrainian-born American journalist, Hollywood screenwriter and novelist who penned two detective novels, The Skyscraper...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Detective Novels from the 1950s

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Detective Novels fro...: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction is generally narrowed to the interwar period, roughly covering the 1920s and '30s, because the World...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Cardula and the Locked Rooms (2026) by Jack Ritchie

Beneath the Stains of Time: Cardula and the Locked Rooms (2026) by Jack Ritchie: Back in 2024, I posted " Locked and Loaded, Part 5: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and Locked Room Mystery Stories , "  a s...

Beneath the Stains of Time: She Walks at Night (1948) by Seishi Yokomizo

Beneath the Stains of Time: She Walks at Night (1948) by Seishi Yokomizo: Back in May, Pushkin Vertigo released their eighth Kosuke Kindaichi novel, Yoru aruku ( She Walks at Night , 1948), written by the patriarc...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Death in 13 Rooms (2026) by A. Carver

Beneath the Stains of Time: Death in 13 Rooms (2026) by A. Carver: Last month, A. Carver published the fifth title in the Alex Corby and Cornelia Crow series, entitled Death in 13 Rooms (2026), which is a ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Locked Room Puzzles (1986) edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Bill Pronzini

Beneath the Stains of Time: Locked Room Puzzles (1986) edited by Martin H. Gre...: So, back in May, I added " The Locked Library ," a companion page to " The Muniment Room ," which is a permanent, easy t...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Flow of Time: Case Closed, vol. 98 by Gosho Aoyama

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Flow of Time: Case Closed, vol. 98 by Gosho Ao...: Later this year, Viz is going to publish the English edition of Gosho Aoyama 's Case Closed , vol. 100, but, considering the original Ja...

Beneath the Stains of Time: A Murder is Announced (1950) by Agatha Christie

Beneath the Stains of Time: A Murder is Announced (1950) by Agatha Christie: Some years ago, while reviewing Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage (1930), I claimed the biggest difference between the Hercu...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Out for Delivery: "The Jersey Devil" (1971) by Edward D. Hoch

Beneath the Stains of Time: Out for Delivery: "The Jersey Devil" (1971) by Edw...: Some months ago, I reviewed a short story from Edward D. Hoch's Captain Leopold series, " The Rainy-Day Bandit " (1970), which...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Case of the Running Man (1958) by Christopher Bush

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Case of the Running Man (1958) by Christopher ...: The Case of the Running Man (1958), the 52nd entry in the Ludovic Travers series, rang in the last phase of Christopher Bush 's decades...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Everyone in This Bank is a Thief (2026) by Benjamin Stevenson

Beneath the Stains of Time: Everyone in This Bank is a Thief (2026) by Benjami...: Last year, I tried the first of Benjamin Stevenson's Ernest Cunningham novels after some initial skepticism, but Everyone in My Family h...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Jack the Poetical Private (1997) by MORI Hiroshi

Beneath the Stains of Time: Jack the Poetical Private (1997) by MORI Hiroshi: In 2013, the Breakthrough Bandwagon Books translated and published over half a dozen short stories by MORI Hiroshi, associate professor, en...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Reprints from Rue Morgue Press

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Reprints from Rue Mo...:   This year marks the tenth anniversary of the permanent shuttering of our beloved, dearly departed Rue Morgue Press following a string of ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Architecture of Murder (2026) by James Scott Byrnside

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Architecture of Murder (2026) by James Scott B...: Last year, James Scott Byrnside published It's About Impossible Crime (2025), a collection of original short stories, in which he paid...