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…Which will start with a French Golden Age Classic, a honkaku short story collection and a Halter novel, in that order…

To round off 2019 we have reviews from The Green Capsule, Ruination Street and the Puzzle Doctor:
The Lord of Misrule – Paul Halter (1994)
The Madman’s Room – Paul Halter (1990)
http://ruinationstreet.blogspot.com/2019/01/la-ruelle-fantome-paul-halter-2005-tr.html
The Flying Boat Mystery (1935) by Franco Vallati trans. Igor Longo

Many thanks to all involved

John P.

The Season’s Greetings (or, as we used to say Merry Christmas) to all my readers.

Let’s celebrate with a joyful interpretation of Jingle Bells;

John P.

The Supplement to the previously released Locked Room Murders bibliography is now available.

It adds pre-1991 items missing from Locked Room Murders, books, short stories and manga published since 1991, and adds radio, TV, film and anime titles.

The Supplement adds 1150 titles to the 2019 already available in Locked Room Murders. No lover of impossible crimes/locked rooms should be without these two books.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=locked+room+murders+supplement&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

Ahsweetmyteryblog finds the great Italian impossible crime novel “an immensely readable tale”:

THE REIGN OF PAIN STAYS MAINLY IN THE PLANE: Franco Vailati’s The Flying Boat Mystery

After a mixed review of The Gold Watch, Classic Mystery gives a strong endorsement of Paul Halter’ second short story collection:

The Helm Of Hades (2019) by Paul Halter

Classic Mystery a.k.a The Puzzle Doctor has mixed feelings, but says “fans will delight in the dead body in the snow solution, which is stunning”:

The Gold Watch (2019) by Paul Halter

Publishers Weekly gives an enthusiastic thumbs-up to Paul Halter’s second short story collection:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-698112084

Another thoughtful review from the excellent blog Moonlight Detective, aka Beneath the Stains of Time:

https://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-flying-boat-mystery-1935-by-franco.html

I was flattered to be contacted by a subsidiary of the New York Times to contribute to a forthcoming article about an unsolved real-life locked room, the Isador Fink murder. I dutifully submitted answers to questions I was given and eagerly awaited the result, which was this rather spectacular production:

https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/facebookwatch/limetown-fink.html

Unfortunately, almost all my input had been discarded!

Here’s the original Q&A     NYT article

It’s not just a (very good) review, it’s almost a hymn of praise, and, as a bonus, it lists all the other reviews for The Seventh Hypothesis

https://jiescribano.wordpress.com/