It is 1922 and Dr. Alan Twist, an authority in the occult sciences and the paranormal, has been invited to a remote corner of Cornwall to investigate a haunting.
His journey is interrupted by the shrill cries of a young woman. Everyone in the region knows they portend disaster and rightly fear that many mysterious deaths will follow.
This is detective Dr. Twist’s first case.
After making a number of corrections, the paperback and the ebook are back on the market.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
John P.
Goodreads gives an enthusiastic and fair review of The Mask of the Vampire.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4665381985
Pulitzer Prize winning author and highly influential book reviewer Michael Dirda calls Misahiro Imamura’s “Death Among the Undead” a tour de force.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/04/06/mystery-books/
(Apologies if advertisements intrude)
Patrick read the French version, which he thought was unnecessarily long:
http://at-scene-of-crime.blogspot.com/2015/08/v-is-for-vampire.html
So did I, which is why the English translation has about 50 pages less…
Self-explanatory
The tpb is now available and just got a justifiably great review from Publisher’s Weekly
https://www.publishersweekly.com/ASINB09TZ4WY9M
This is not an April Fool trick, because I’m publishing it after noon on April 1st. Tradition has it that anyone who cries “April Fool” after mid-day in themselves the fool
John
Here’s Bad Player’s take:
“…a fantastic, unique, well-plotted mystery.”
https://bp-reviews.blogspot.com/2021/01/murders-at-house-of-death.html
I must read more of his/her reviews!
The review is specifically about The House That Kills, but it’s the unbridled enthusiasm for Vindry that’s so striking
