Beneath the Stains of Time: The Laughing Cure: "The Problem of the Vanishing T...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Laughing Cure: "The Problem of the Vanishing T...: A week ago, I reviewed Edward D. Hoch's Challenge the Impossible: The Final Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (2018), which is the last ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Final Destination: "The Bus That Went Into the Fog...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Final Destination: "The Bus That Went Into the Fog...: My obsessive, unhealthy love affair with the impossible crime story has been well documented on this blog and one of the high spots was une...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in Texas (1935) by Ada E. Lingo

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in Texas (1935) by Ada E. Lingo: Ada E. Lingo was a journalist, writer and physician who penned her first of only two detective novels, Murder in Texas (1935), while sh...

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: The Further Side of Fear (1967) by Helen McCloy

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Further Side of Fear (1967) by Helen McCloy: Early last year, I dispensed with the oh-so clever, but confusing, blog-post titles and faintly related opening quotes, which I shameless...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Case of the Corporal's Leave (1945) by Christo...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Case of the Corporal's Leave (1945) by Christo...: The Case of the Corporal's Leave (1945) is Christopher Bush 's twenty-ninth mystery novel about his two detectives, Ludovic Trav...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Asteroid Blues: "Time Wants a Skeleton" (1941) by ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Asteroid Blues: "Time Wants a Skeleton" (1941) by ...: Back in 2015, I reviewed a full-blown science-fiction novel, James P. Hogan's Inherit the Stars (1977), which was brought to my atte...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Appleby and the Ospreys (1986) by Michael Innes

Beneath the Stains of Time: Appleby and the Ospreys (1986) by Michael Innes: I recently returned to the detective novels of " Michael Innes ," a nom-de-plume of Oxford don J.I.M. Stewart, by plucking Appl...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Some Die Hard (1979) by Stephen Mertz

Beneath the Stains of Time: Some Die Hard (1979) by Stephen Mertz: Stephen Mertz is an American writer of popular commercial novels in a wide range of genres, such as action thrillers, supernatural suspe...

Beneath the Stains of Time: All But Impossible: The Impossible Files of Dr. Sa...

Beneath the Stains of Time: All But Impossible: The Impossible Files of Dr. Sa...: Originally, I had planned to use this particular blog-post for either Christopher Bush , Bruce Campbell or Paul Doherty , but my previou...

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 Theft and the Prophecy: Two Fictional Impossib...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Theft and the Prophecy: Two Fictional Impossib...: In my previous blog-post, " The Ghost and the Canary ," I covered two real-life examples of the impossible crime story and decide...

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: Murder in Retrospect: The Best and Worst of 2016

Beneath the Stains of Time: Murder in Retrospect: The Best and Worst of 2016: " He's making a list, checking it twice Gonna find out who's naughty or nice ." - Santa Claus is Coming to Town ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Crash Dive

Beneath the Stains of Time: Crash Dive: " Yes... it's a puzzle to know just where to begin ." - Major Williams (Lynton Blow's The "Moth" Murder , 193...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Serpents in the Garden

Beneath the Stains of Time: Serpents in the Garden: " Stories rife with words inane, Tears in hand, all shed in pain; These, the author holds—a fool, Who else can make their...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Oldest Trick in the Book

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Oldest Trick in the Book: " Now, brought to this conclusion in so unequivocal a manner as we are, it is not our part, as reasoners, to reject it on account ...

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Jewel That Was Ours

Beneath the Stains of Time: The Jewel That Was Ours: " And that means murder.. ."  - Miles Bredon (Ronald A. Knox's "Solved by Inspection," collected in The Oxfor...