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: Cross Marks the Spot (1933) by James Ronald

Beneath the Stains of Time: Cross Marks the Spot (1933) by James Ronald: Last year, the Moonstone Press completed their ambitious, massive reprinting project of James Ronald 's nearly forgotten, long out-of-p...

Beneath the Stains of Time: It's the Numbers That Count: Q.E.D. vol. 44-46 by Motohiro Katou

Beneath the Stains of Time: It's the Numbers That Count: Q.E.D. vol. 44-46 by ...: I ended the review of Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. vol. 42-43 with the plan to have this series wrapped before July, which can be done at t...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Ho-Ho-Homicide: "A Murder in Christmas Village" (2015) by Alex Colwell

Beneath the Stains of Time: Ho-Ho-Homicide: "A Murder in Christmas Village" (2...: I first read about Alex Colwell's short story, "A Murder in Christmas Village" (2015), on a now long since deleted website, ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: 13 to the Gallows (2008) by John Dickson Carr and Val Gielgudand

Beneath the Stains of Time: 13 to the Gallows (2008) by John Dickson Carr and ...: This year marks the 30th anniversary of Douglas G. Green's founding of Crippen & Landru , a small publishing firm specialized in sho...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Behind Closed Doors (1980) by Phillips Lore

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Behind Closed Doors (1980) by Phillips Lore: Terrence Lore Smith was an American crime-and mystery writer probably best remembered today, if he's remembered at all, for his bestsell...

Beneath the Stains of Time: London's Glory (2015) by Christopher Fowler

Beneath the Stains of Time: London's Glory (2015) by Christopher Fowler: Christopher Fowler was a British author of some fifty novels and short story collections, covering everything from fantasy, horror and scie...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Kindaichi Case Files: Death TV by Yozaburo Kanari and Fumiya Sato

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Kindaichi Case Files: Death TV by Yozaburo Kan...: I'm consistently about two months, give or take a week or two, ahead on schedule with enough blog-posts and reviews queued to occasional...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Death on Bastille Day (1981) by Pierre Siniac

Beneath the Stains of Time: Death on Bastille Day (1981) by Pierre Siniac: Pierre-Mitsos Zakariadis was a French crime writer who authored over forty novels and short story collections, " stories with surprisin...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Murder Wheel (2023) by Tom Mead

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Murder Wheel (2023) by Tom Mead: Tom Mead is a British writer, playwright and a self-described student of the impossible crime story, " there is something about a locke...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Adventures of the Puzzle Club (2022) by Ellery Queen and Josh Pachter

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Adventures of the Puzzle Club (2022) by Ellery...: The New York cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee were the heart and brain behind one of the most important names in the American dete...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Broken Pieces: Q.E.D. vol. 27-28 by Motohiro Katou

Beneath the Stains of Time: Broken Pieces: Q.E.D. vol. 27-28 by Motohiro Katou: This series needs no introduction and there have been enough excessively padded blog-posts lately. So let's jump right in. Motohiro Kato...

Beneath the Stains of Time: My Mother, the Detective: The Complete "Mom" Short Stories (1997/2016) by James Yaffe

Beneath the Stains of Time: My Mother, the Detective: The Complete "Mom" Short...: Around this time last year, I reviewed James Yaffe 's second of four novel-length "Mom" mysteries, Mom Meets Her Maker (1990)...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Days Gone By: Q.E.D. vol. 19-20 by Motohiro Katou

Beneath the Stains of Time: Days Gone By: Q.E.D. vol. 19-20 by Motohiro Katou: Motohiro Katou 's Q.E.D. vol. 19 suspiciously starts off with a surprisingly conventional detective story, "The Ghost of Macbeth,&...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Reconstructive Nostalgia: Q.E.D. vol. 17-18 by Motohiro Katou

Beneath the Stains of Time: Reconstructive Nostalgia: Q.E.D. vol. 17-18 by Mot...: "Disaster of a Disastrous Man" is the first of two stories from Motohiro Katou's Q.E.D. vol. 17 and marks the return of the C...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Without a Net (1962) by Martin Meroy

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Without a Net (1962) by Martin Meroy: "Martin Meroy" was the penname of Charles Ewald, a French journalist, radio producer and writer, who penned a series of typical, 1...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka (1966) by Josef Skvorecky

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka (1966...: Josef Skvorecky was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher, born in former Czechoslovakia, who became an internationally acclaimed author of...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Among Actors (1963) by Ton Vervoort

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder Among Actors (1963) by Ton Vervoort: This year, I began exploring the work of an unjustly forgotten, long out-of-print Dutch mystery writer, Peter Verstegen, who wrote a handful...

Beneath the Stains of Time: An Alibi Too Soon (1987) by Roger Ormerod

Beneath the Stains of Time: An Alibi Too Soon (1987) by Roger Ormerod: Together with Kip Chase , Douglas Clark , Charles Forsyte and Jack Vance , Roger Ormerod belonged to the Lost Generation of detective nove...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The New Kindaichi Files (1994) by Seimaru Amagi

Beneath the Stains of Time: The New Kindaichi Files (1994) by Seimaru Amagi: Two years ago, I reviewed Seimaru Amagi's Denn ō sansō satsujin jiken ( Murder On-Line , 1996), a so-called "light novel," wh...