Showing posts with label Seafaring Mysteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seafaring Mysteries. Show all posts
Friday, October 02, 2026
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...
Thursday, August 20, 2026
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...
Friday, May 08, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Foggy Past: C.M.B. vol. 11-12 by Motohiro Katou
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Foggy Past: C.M.B. vol. 11-12 by Motohiro Katou: The first story from Motohiro Katou 's C.M.B. vol. 11, "Phaistos Disc," returns to the two part, two chapter format in which ...
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: Tim MacNab Seeks a Story (1937) by Marten Toonder
Beneath the Stains of Time: Tim MacNab Seeks a Story (1937) by Marten Toonder: The concept of "lost media" is something of an obsession on parts of the internet and touched upon the subject myself, " Top ...
Friday, November 07, 2025
Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder of the Admiral (1936) by Steve Fisher
Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder of the Admiral (1936) by Steve Fisher: Steve Gould Fisher was an American pulp writer and ex-Navy officer, serving four years on a submarine, where he cut his teeth as writer by ...
Friday, September 19, 2025
Beneath the Stains of Time: A Gumshoe with Sea Legs: "Death at the Porthole" (1938) and "The Eye" (1945) by Baynard Kendrick
Beneath the Stains of Time: A Gumshoe with Sea Legs: "Death at the Porthole" (...: Baynard Kendrick is best known today for creating one of the most successful blind detectives in crime fiction, Captain Duncan Maclain, who...
Thursday, September 04, 2025
Beneath the Stains of Time: A Yacht Sets Sail (1947) by Deck Dorval
Beneath the Stains of Time: A Yacht Sets Sail (1947) by Deck Dorval: "Deck Dorval" is the joined pseudonym of three Belgian authors, Frans van Dooren, Jef Beeckmans and Jos Deckkers, who had a forty-...
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Aluminum Turtle (1960) by Baynard Kendrick
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Aluminum Turtle (1960) by Baynard Kendrick: Baynard Kendrick 's The Aluminum Turtle (1960), alternatively titled The Spear Gun Murders , is the eleventh, and penultimate, novel in...
Friday, May 23, 2025
Beneath the Stains of Time: Memory Fail: Q.E.D. vol. 47-49 by Motohiro Katou
Beneath the Stains of Time: Memory Fail: Q.E.D. vol. 47-49 by Motohiro Katou: The first, of two, stories from Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. vol. 47, "The Sun is Still Blazing," takes place at a secret and high...
Monday, November 11, 2024
Beneath the Stains of Time: Tales of a Steam Hotel: "The Looting of the Specie-Room" (1900) by Cutcliffe Hyne
Beneath the Stains of Time: Tales of a Steam Hotel: "The Looting of the Specie...: C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne was a British writer who was " one of the most prolific and successful producers of early magazine SF " and n...
Friday, May 24, 2024
Beneath the Stains of Time: Shadowed Sunlight (1945) by Christianna Brand
Beneath the Stains of Time: Shadowed Sunlight (1945) by Christianna Brand: Last time, I discussed Christianna Brand's Death in High Heels (1941), very much an apprentice work full with undeveloped potential and...
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Beneath the Stains of Time: Black Run (2021) by D.L. Marshall
Beneath the Stains of Time: Black Run (2021) by D.L. Marshall: D.L. Marshall's Anthrax Island (2021) was one of last year's standouts, a hybridization of the action thriller, espionage and the c...
Friday, March 31, 2023
Beneath the Stains of Time: It's a Numbers Game: Q.E.D. vol. 23-24 by Motohiro Katou
Beneath the Stains of Time: It's a Numbers Game: Q.E.D. vol. 23-24 by Motohiro...: The first of two stories from Motohiro Katou 's Q.E.D. vol. 23, "The Liar," begins with Sou Touma arriving in Taiwan to meet...
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Beneath the Stains of Time: The End of Andrew Harrison (1938) by Freeman Wills...
Beneath the Stains of Time: The End of Andrew Harrison (1938) by Freeman Wills...: Freeman Wills Crofts was the Golden Age detective story's first and foremost manufacturer of unbreakable, steel-lined alibis, but, duri...
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Murder on the Boat Deck (1941) by Vanno
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Murder on the Boat Deck (1941) by Vanno: During the first years of Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Bruna published two detective novels by an unknown, pseudonymous author, "...
Friday, October 15, 2021
Beneath the Stains of Time: Sunken Secrets: "Death Dives Deep" (1959) by Robert Arthur (writing as "Brett Halliday")
Beneath the Stains of Time: Sunken Secrets: "Death Dives Deep" (1959) by Rober...: Back in June, I read Murder and the Married Virgin (1944) by " Brett Halliday ," a pseudonym of Davis Dresser, which came recomme...
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder of a Negative (1963) by Dick A. van Ruler
Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder of a Negative (1963) by Dick A. van Ruler: Last month, I reviewed In de greep van de kreeft ( In the Grip of the Lobster , 1965) by "B.J. Kleymens," a shared penname of J. ...
Wednesday, August 04, 2021
Beneath the Stains of Time: A Talent for War (1989) by Jack McDevitt
Beneath the Stains of Time: A Talent for War (1989) by Jack McDevitt: Back in 2013, Ho-Ling Wong introduced the traditional mystery corner of the web to James P. Hogan's Inherit the Stars (1977), a scienc...
Monday, March 08, 2021
Beneath the Stains of Time: A Brush with Rembrandt: Q.E.D. vol. 13 by Motohiro Katou
Beneath the Stains of Time: A Brush with Rembrandt: Q.E.D. vol. 13 by Motohiro...: So it's been a little over a month since my previous review of Motohiro Katou 's Q.E.D. vol. 12 and therefore about time to do ano...
Friday, February 26, 2021
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Darkest Fathoms: "Caribbean Crisis" (1962) by Desmond Reid
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Darkest Fathoms: "Caribbean Crisis" (1962) by ...: The Derek Smith Omnibus (2014) is one of the most important publications to have come out of John Pugmire's Locked Room International ...
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