Showing posts with label golden age of detection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label golden age of detection. Show all posts
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in the Tomb (1937) by Lucian Austin Osgood
Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in the Tomb (1937) by Lucian Austin Osgood: Over the years, I picked up a curious collection of so-called genre curiosities, alternative classics and a couple of neglected gems along t...
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Double Turn (1956) by Carol Carnac
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Double Turn (1956) by Carol Carnac: Last year, the British Library Crime Classics reprinted E.C.R. Lorac's Murder As a Fine Art (1953), published as by "Carol Carnac,...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Darker the Night (1949) by Herbert Brean
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Darker the Night (1949) by Herbert Brean: There are a handful of dusty, timeworn tropes and cliches that make detective fans despair when they rear their ugly head in a mystery, nove...
Friday, April 10, 2026
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...
Friday, April 03, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Snake of Luvercy (1926/27) by Maurice Renard
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Snake of Luvercy (1926/27) by Maurice Renard: John Pugmire passed away in 2024 and his death not only meant the end of Locked Room International , but also ended the steady stream of tr...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Judges of Hades and Other Simon Ark Stories (1971) by Edward D. Hoch
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Judges of Hades and Other Simon Ark Stories (1...: Decades before Crippen & Landru, Edward D. Hoch had about half a dozen collections of his voluminous detective fiction published, throu...
Monday, March 23, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: Puzzle in Porcelain (1945) by Elizabeth Gresham (writing as "Robin Grey")
Beneath the Stains of Time: Puzzle in Porcelain (1945) by Elizabeth Gresham (w...: "Robin Grey" was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Fenner Gresham , of whom not much is known today, except that she was involved with th...
Friday, March 20, 2026
Happiness Is A Book: Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Medbury Fort Murder by George Limnelius
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: Fear of Fear (1931) by Florence Ryerson and Colin ...
Beneath the Stains of Time: Fear of Fear (1931) by Florence Ryerson and Colin ...: Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements were an American husband-and-wife writing tandem, " of varied and prodigious talent ," whose o...
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 ...
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Leopard Died Too (1957) by Nigel Brent
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Leopard Died Too (1957) by Nigel Brent: "Nigel Brent," a pseudonym of Cecil Gordon Eugene Wimhurst, is one of those obscure, practically forgotten writers who published a...
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Ring of Innocent (1952) by Brian Flynn
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Ring of Innocent (1952) by Brian Flynn: Brian Flynn 's The Ring of Innocent (1952), the fortieth title in the Anthony Bathurst series, begins with Martin Scudamore going to se...
Sunday, February 08, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: Death Below the Dam (1936) by Esther Fonseca
Beneath the Stains of Time: Death Below the Dam (1936) by Esther Fonseca: Not much is known today of Esther Haven Fonseca, except for scraps and pieces of bio-and bibliographical information, but, what can be said ...
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Stars Spell Murder: "Handbook for Homicide" (1943) by Fredric Brown
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Stars Spell Murder: "Handbook for Homicide" (1...: Fredric Brown 's "Handbook for Homicide," originally published in the March, 1943, issue of Detective Tales , can be described...
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Unicorn Murders (1935) by Carter Dickson
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Unicorn Murders (1935) by Carter Dickson: In May, the British Library Crime Classics series of reprints is releasing a brand new, long overdue edition of John Dickson Carr 's fou...
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Sentry-Box Murder (1935) by Newton Gayle
Beneath the Stains of Time: The Sentry-Box Murder (1935) by Newton Gayle: " Newton Gayle ," a pseudonym, was a partnership of strange bedfellows between Muna Lee and Maurice Guinness, a human rights activ...
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: Invitation to Murder (1953) by Ab Visser
Beneath the Stains of Time: Invitation to Murder (1953) by Ab Visser: Ab Visser was a Dutch writer, editor, critic, reviewer, poet and a tireless advocate of the Dutch detective story, who tried to position him...
Tuesday, January 06, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: Above Suspicion (1922/23) by Robert Orr Chipperfield
Beneath the Stains of Time: Above Suspicion (1922/23) by Robert Orr Chipperfield: Several years ago, I reviewed the "Otto Penzler's Locked Room Library" reprint edition of The Clue in the Air (1917) by Isabe...
Friday, January 02, 2026
Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder of a Matriarch (1936) by Hugh Austin
Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder of a Matriarch (1936) by Hugh Austin: Hugh Austin, a true enigma, was a mystery writer about whom very little, or anything, is known and what's known doesn't always appea...
Sunday, December 28, 2025
Beneath the Stains of Time: People vs. Withers and Malone (1963) by Stuart Palmer and Craig Rice
Beneath the Stains of Time: People vs. Withers and Malone (1963) by Stuart Pal...: You know, I love a good detective trope as much as the next person and my enduring, tediously documented obsession with the locked room mys...
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