Mystery Ahoy Anniversary report features 2 LRI titles in top 5
If you haven’t read the Mystery Ahoy! blog you’re missing out on some astute commentary as well as a very artistically designed website. Of course, I may be biased….
The Intermittent LRI Blog
Challenge to Alert Readers
Why would I post this?
The Madman’s Room—Paroxysms of Delight
The Greatest Game blog gives Paul Halters classic five stars and claims it is guaranteed to send detective fiction fans into paroxysms of delight.
Who am I to disagree?
The Man Who Loved Clouds- Bizarre and Wonderful
The Puzzle Doctor gives a big thumbs-up in a review with a novel twist: an intermission, during which he tries to solve the mystery before his readers own eyes. The verdict: “Damn clever. Really, really clever.” Thanks, Steve!
Paul Halter’s The Man Who Loved Clouds now available
Paul Halter’s brilliant and creepy Dr Twist novel (PW’s words, not mine: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-721081-21-9) is now available in trade paperback and ebook.
Paul Halter’s The Man Who Loved Clouds
A great review from Publishers Weekly of LRI’s latest Paul Halter, due out September 1, 2018
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-721081219
Locked Room Murders, continued
Martin Edwards, President of The Detection Club, author of the award-winning The Golden Age of Murder, prolific Golden Age author and good friend, also finds time to write a very informative blog, in which, amongst other things he covers Forgotten Books. His latest post is about the newly-released Locked Room Murders:
http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/2018/08/great-news-for-locked-room-fans.html
Bob Adey’s Locked Room Murders 1991 Republished!
It is with great pride that LRI republishes Bob Adey’s classic bibliography at a price ($19.99) which makes it available to all, thanks to kind permission from Sue Adey.
All the titles in the 1991 edition are here, with summaries and, separately, solutions to 2019 novels and short stories. Brian Skupin, LRI consultant and co-publisher of Mystery Scene has done a phenomenal job of correcting errors in the text and adding references posted after 1991.
Hitherto impossible to find or hideously expensive, there is no longer any excuse for locked room/impossible crime enthusiasts to be without it.
And, in 2019, LRI plans a Supplemental Edition to include novels and short stories (including translations from sources outside the Anglosphere) published since 1991, films, TV series, graphic novels, and other media. It will not contain any of the titles in the Second Edition, Revised.
There are no plans at this stage for ebook editions of either book.
Redesigned website
The new site design is here, thanks to the kind efforts of my friend and owner of the excellent blog The Invisible Event, Jim Noy.
Knowing that I am irremediably inept at that kind of thing, Jim offered to redesign the site in his own time. I think it’s terrific, but I’d also like to hear from you. There is now a page dedicated to each book: cover, summary, reviews and, of course, a click-to-buy feature. As if that weren’t enough, there is a remorseless reminder of the four latest books for sale down the side of each page. There is simply no escape.
Astute readers will already have noticed there there is a photograph (amateurishly shot, in the grand LRI tradition) on the Welcome page showing two hitherto unannounced publications. More information will be coming in the next few days. Henceforth, the photo will be cunningly changed with each new publication.
Once again my deepest gratitude to Jim.
Another great review of The 8 Mansion Murders
A fine review from a fine blogger
#405: The 8 Mansion Murders (1989) by Takemaru Abiko [trans. Ho-Ling Wong 2018]