Locked Room International is back up (unless posting this notice blows it up again).
It was an ipage problem, the solution to which was some incomprehensible technical gibberish.
I’m publishing this note now, so… fingers crossed
John P.
Dear reader,
lockedroominternationalcom is experiencing problems and is effectively shut down whilst we try and fix them.
John P.
James Scott Byrnside, a fine contemporary impossible crime author in his own right, posts this very fair review.
Lending the Key to the Locked Room
Thank you James!
From Mysteries Ahoy:
“… an entertaining read. The puzzle has some really clever features… “
Lending the Key to the Locked Room by Tokuya Higashigawa, translated by Ho-Ling Wong
“… an immensely enjoyable impossible crime novel.” Starred review
https://www.publishersweekly.com/979-8-568497-21-9
Moonlight Detective calls this one of his favourite titles to come out of LRI.
http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2020/12/lending-key-to-locked-room-2002-by.html
‘… a truly baffling problem… clever plotting, clueing, red herrings and false solutions…’
Here’s to a Much Happier 2021
The Moonlight Detective/Beneath the Stains of Time has posted a fabulous review of Marcel Lanteaume’s French Golden Age classic:
http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-thirteenth-bullet-1948-by-marcel.html
‘…A glorious, unapologetic flight of fancy… can stand with the best pulp-style locked room mysteries.’
Lanteaume keeps throwing twists, surprises and dangers
Goodreads finds Lending the Key to the Locked Room “Interesting, intriguing and suspenseful… there is a tone of humour throughout the novel, which adds to its delight… Highly recommended.”
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3710559198
Who would disagree?
Seasons Greetings to all
John P.
The ebook version of this brilliantly clever and genuinely funny honkaku novel is now available in e-book format, just in time for the holidays.
Enjoy!
John P.
LRI is pleased to announce a brand new honkaku mystery from the pen of Tokuya Higashigawa.
In order to release it in time for the festive season, I’m not waiting for a review, but giving my own summary:
Ryuhei, a would-be film director, has just been dumped by his girl friend and his drunken threats to kill her have made him the prime suspect, as she has just been murdered.
His alibi is that he was watching a film in his friend’s home movie theatre at the time. Unfortunately, his friend has also been stabbed to death in his bathroom, with the door to the apartment locked with a door chain.
Worse still, Ryuhei was the only other person in the apartment at the time, and passed out until the following morning after he discovered his friend’s body. Fearing that the police will not believe him, because the door chain can only be locked from the inside, he panics and runs away. Not a good idea.
Lending the Key to the Locked Room is not only brilliantly clever, it is also genuinely funny.
Enjoy the holiday and spread the word
John
