A paean for Noel Vindry
The review is specifically about The House That Kills, but it’s the unbridled enthusiasm for Vindry that’s so striking
The review is specifically about The House That Kills, but it’s the unbridled enthusiasm for Vindry that’s so striking
This one is from A Crime is Afoot: “I found the solution extremely elegant and clever…..Brilliant and highly recommended”
Thank you Jose Escribano and Jim Noy
Dear Readers,
To celebrate the New Year,I am announcing the following price reductions:
Death Out of Nowhere and The Gold Watch from $19.99 to $15.99 (tpb) and from $9.99 to $7.99 (ebk)
Locked Room Murders Supplement from $24.99 to $19.99 (tpb). Not available as ebook.
I wish you a Happy and Prosperous 2022, however unlikely that may sound right now.
John
“Fans of John Dickson Carr will be in Heaven”
Publisher’s weekly starred review of Noel Vindry’s last impossible crime novel:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/ASINB09M83SG8L
All in all, a fair and balanced review from Mysteries Ahoy: “has enough points of interest that it would be a very solid second read.”
Through the Walls by Noël Vindry, translated by John Pugmire
Self-explanatory
A Travers les murailles, Noel Vindry’s last novel to feature M. Allou, the master resolver of locked room mysteries, is now available.
Rated almost as highly as The Howling Beast by 1000 Chambres Closes, it features several impossible crimes in and outside an eerie manor, whose inhabitants are convinced that the aggressors are capable of walking through walls.
Another great review, this one from the highly selective Ah! Sweet Mystery blog:
“… great fun, and a clever mystery… Locked Room International’s latest triumph… ” I blush.
https://ahsweetmysteryblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/10/
The Moonlight Detective cannot contain his enthusiasm:
“… purely as a traditional, plot-driven mystery novel, ‘Death Among the Undead’ can stand with the best of its kind, past and present
… close to perfect as a hybrid-mystery novel… My best and favorite read of 2021!”
http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2021/09/death-among-undead-2017-by-masahiro.html
On a more prosaic note, there will be a short unavailability of the tpd while I publish a small update.
John P.