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: Mr. Diabolo (1960) by Anthony Lejeune

Beneath the Stains of Time: Mr. Diabolo (1960) by Anthony Lejeune: Edward Anthony Thompson, better known during his lifetime as " Anthony Lejeune ," was a British political writer, syndicated colum...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Locked and Loaded, Part 3: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and Locked Room Mystery Stories

Beneath the Stains of Time: Locked and Loaded, Part 3: A Selection of Short Im...: A while ago, I cobbled together a pair of compilation posts, "Locked and Loaded, Part 1 and 2 ," which discussed a devil's do...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Grassy Knoll (1993) by William Harrington

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Grassy Knoll (1993) by William Harrington: William Harrington was an American writer who ended his own life in 2000 and left behind a self-written obituary in which he revealed to ha...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Room 103: "The Half-Invisible Man" (1974) by Bill ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Room 103: "The Half-Invisible Man" (1974) by Bill ...: Bill Pronzini and Jeffrey Wallman's "The Half-Invisible Man" was originally published in the May, 1974, issue of Ellery Qu...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Fox Valley Murders (1966) by John Holbrook Van...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Fox Valley Murders (1966) by John Holbrook Van...: So, after finishing Colin Robertson's Demons' Moon (1951), I intended to take a short break from the impossible crime story and ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Inspector De Klerck and the Diabolical Game (2020)...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Inspector De Klerck and the Diabolical Game (2020)...: Rechercheur De Klerck en het duivelse spel ( Inspector De Klerck and the Diabolical Game , 2020) is the second novel in a brand new seri...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Behind the Music: "The Riddle of the Humming Bee" ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Behind the Music: "The Riddle of the Humming Bee" ...: Just like my previous blog-post, this is a return to a mystery writer I only discovered last year, namely Paul Charles , who's a con...

Beneath the Stains of Time: An Internal Affair: "Motive" (2000) by Hideo Yokoy...

Beneath the Stains of Time: An Internal Affair: "Motive" (2000) by Hideo Yokoy...: Hideo Yokoyama worked as an investigative reporter for J ō m ō Shimbun , a daily newspaper based in Gunma prefecture, but, in the late n...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in the Crooked House (1982) by Soji Shimada...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in the Crooked House (1982) by Soji Shimada...: Last month, I posted a review of Soji Shimada 's bloody tour-de-force, Senseijutsu satsujinjiken ( The Tokyo Zodiac Murders , 1981),...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder On-Line (1996) by Seimaru Amagi

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder On-Line (1996) by Seimaru Amagi: I suppose only a tiny fraction of my regular blog readers are aware, or have read, a Japanese "light novel." Light novels are t...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Die Again, Macready (1984) by Jack Livingston

Beneath the Stains of Time: Die Again, Macready (1984) by Jack Livingston: A strange, but fascinating, passageway in the locked room-and impossible crime genre is a dark, grimy alley that opens onto those mean st...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Most Ingenious (1962) by Kip Chase

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Most Ingenious (1962) by Kip Chase: I really, really like impossible crime fiction and currently have more than four-hundred of my nearly nine-hundred blog-posts tagged with...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The 8 Mansion Murders (1989) by Takemaru Abiko

Beneath the Stains of Time: The 8 Mansion Murders (1989) by Takemaru Abiko: Takemaru Abiko is a founding member of the shin honkaku movement in Japan and one of the mystery writers who emerged from the ranks of ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: In a Vanishing Room (1961) by Robert Colby

Beneath the Stains of Time: In a Vanishing Room (1961) by Robert Colby: Robert Colby was a writer of tough, fast-paced paperback originals and his short stories were regularly printed in two popular publication...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Among Children (1967) by Donald E. Westlake...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Among Children (1967) by Donald E. Westlake...: Donald E. Westlake 's Murder Among Children (1967) originally appeared under the name "Tucker Coe" and is the second of on...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Case of the Invisible College and Other Myster...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Case of the Invisible College and Other Myster...: Recently, I stumbled across a modern, little-known volume of short stories with a book-title that captured my imagination, The Case of the ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: John Sladek: Short Slayings

Beneath the Stains of Time: John Sladek: Short Slayings: " A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complet...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Two Shooter

Beneath the Stains of Time: Two Shooter: " Locked rooms and mysterious disappearances smack of deliberate subterfuge ." - Sabina Carpenter (Bill Pronzini's &quot...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Dead Man's Quest

Beneath the Stains of Time: Dead Man's Quest: " And now, Jim, we're to go in for this here treasure-hunting, with sealed orders too, and I don't like it; and you and me...