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: 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: The Frankenstein Factory (1975) by Edward D. Hoch

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Frankenstein Factory (1975) by Edward D. Hoch: Edward D. Hoch was the King of Short Stories, the Man of a Thousand Tales of Mystery and Detection, but, during his five decade run, Hoch a...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Locked and Loaded, Part 7: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and Locked Room Mystery Stories

Beneath the Stains of Time: Locked and Loaded, Part 7: A Selection of Short Im...: So lately, I noticed an unaccountable, unacceptable dearth in locked room and impossible crime reviews which needed immediate correction to ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Ark (2022) by Haruo Yuki

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Ark (2022) by Haruo Yuki: When compiling and cobbling together " The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Hybrid Mysteries ," I mulled over including a disaster-themed...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Hybrid Mysteries

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Hit List: Top 10 Favorite Hybrid Mysteries: In 2021, John Pugmire's Locked Room International published Masahiro Imamura's Shijinso no satsujin ( Death Among the Undead , 201...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Nature of Things: C.M.B. vol. 7-8 by Motohiro Katou

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Nature of Things: C.M.B. vol. 7-8 by Motohiro ...: Following a short hiatus, I returned to the work of Motohiro Katou back in September with a review of C.M.B. vol. 5-6 and the intention w...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Man Who Died Seven Times (1995) by Yasuhiko Ni...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Man Who Died Seven Times (1995) by Yasuhiko Ni...: Three months ago, Pushkin Vertigo released Yasuhiko Nishizawa 's Nanakai shinda otoko ( The Man Who Died Seven Times , 1995), translat...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Black Lake Manor (2022) by Guy Morpuss

Beneath the Stains of Time: Black Lake Manor (2022) by Guy Morpuss: For years, Jim Noy, of The Invisible Event , has been running an irregular, sporadic series of blog-posts, "A Little Help for My Friend...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Strange Houses (2021) by Uketsu

Beneath the Stains of Time: Strange Houses (2021) by Uketsu: Back in March, I reviewed Henna e ( Strange Pictures , 2022) written by the pseudonymous Japanese horror and mystery Youtuber, "Uketsu...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Visitors to the Isolated Island (2020) by Kie Houjou

Beneath the Stains of Time: Visitors to the Isolated Island (2020) by Kie Houjou: Last year, Kie Houjou became one of my favorite mystery writers on the strength of two novels, Jikuu ryokousha no sunadokei ( The Time Trav...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Burning Court (1937) by John Dickson Carr

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Burning Court (1937) by John Dickson Carr: John Dickson Carr 's The Burning Court (1937), published during the Goldilocks years of the Golden Age, enjoys the status of a fan favo...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Locked and Loaded, Part 5: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and Locked Room Mystery Stories

Beneath the Stains of Time: Locked and Loaded, Part 5: A Selection of Short Im...: Every now and then, I do one of these "Locked and Loaded" posts to read and review mostly obscure, often uncollected short locked ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: And Then There Were Nyan (2024) by A.Z. Ruin

Beneath the Stains of Time: And Then There Were Nyan (2024) by A.Z. Ruin: So for the past three, four months, I've been reading, rating and reviewing impossible crime novels and short stories that were nominate...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Delicious Death for Detectives (2022) by Kie Houjou

Beneath the Stains of Time: Delicious Death for Detectives (2022) by Kie Houjou: I previously reviewed the first, of currently three, genre-bending detective novels in Kie Houjou 's "Ryuuzen Clan" series tha...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Time Traveler's Hourglass (2019) by Kie Houjou

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Time Traveler's Hourglass (2019) by Kie Houjou: Kie Houjou is a Japanese mystery writer who bagged the Tetsuya Ayukawa Award for her debut novel, Jikuu ryokousha no sunadokei ( The Time...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Terrarium Nine: "Murder in the Urth Degree" (1989) by Edward Wellen

Beneath the Stains of Time: Terrarium Nine: "Murder in the Urth Degree" (1989)...: Earlier this month, I revisited the short-lived Dr. Wendell Urth series of short stories, " Earth is An Armchair: The Wendell Urth Quar...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Earth is An Armchair: The Wendell Urth Quartet by ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Earth is An Armchair: The Wendell Urth Quartet by ...: During the early 1950s, Isaac Asimov observed " one would think that science fiction would blend easily with the mystery ," but, ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Caves of Steel (1953/54) by Isaac Asimov

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Caves of Steel (1953/54) by Isaac Asimov: Once upon a time, in the 1950s, the detective genre received a distinguished visitor from outer space, Isaac Asimov , who came as an ambassa...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Perfect Insider (1996) by MORI Hiroshi

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Perfect Insider (1996) by MORI Hiroshi: Back in 2020, I reviewed MORI Hiroshi's " Sekit ō no yane kazan " ("The Rooftop Ornaments of Stone Ratha," 1999), a...