The Intermittent LRI Blog

‘Mind-bending puzzle’ and ‘stellar mystery’ are terms not lightly thrown around:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-686782-85-5

A tough but fair review of The Fourth Door. Paul was cutting his teeth as novelist, as was I as a translator. Who’s to say whether the rawness came from the Frenchman or the Englishman? Be that as it may, “a swing at the fences” accurately reflects the ambition, the execution and the future promise:

The Fourth Door by The Green Capsule

As readers will know, EQMM invites contributors to write a blog entry on their chosen topic. I wrote about Honkaku and my co-publisher of Locked Room Murders and the forthcoming Locked Room Murders supplement, Brian Skupin, chose (what else?) The Locked Room Mystery. In her introduction, the editrix Janet Hutchings mentioned my contribution, which, for the record, is 30 stories and counting…

“EQMM and the Locked Room Mystery” (by Brian Skupin)

Over at Moonlight Detective/Beneath the Stains of Time, a really terrific review:

‘a fascinating, time-shattering detective story with an excellently positioned and executed impossible crime, but even more impressive is how beautiful all the plot-strands, decades apart, interacted and were pulled together – proving that murder can be a fine art. Highly recommended!’

http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-gold-watch-2019-by-paul-halter.html

The Anime News Network announced that The Decagon House Murders is going to be turned into a manga.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-07-25/hiro-kiyohara-launches-manga-of-yukito-ayatsuji-the-decagon-house-murders/.149332

It’s about time, I’d say. It came out in 1987!

ahsweetmysteryblog has written a remarkably insightful review of The Gold Watch:

TIC-TAC! TIC-TAC!: Paul Halter’s The Gold Watch

The Invisible Event joins Publishers Weekly and Moonlight Detective in their enthusiasm for Boca’s creepy epic The Seventh Guest

#548: The Seventh Guest (1935) by Gaston Boca [trans. John Pugmire 2018]

This year’s Bodies from the Library took place on Saturday and my good friend Jim Noy, together with Dan Curtis, presented their own original twist on the subject:

#546: The 10 Types of Impossible Crime – Categories and Titles from Our Talk at Bodies from the Library 2019

The ebook version of Paul Halter’s new impossible crime is now available

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TBT4GW3

After two months without access to mylri.com (explained in a separate post), I am pleased and relieved to announce that Paul’s new novel is now available in paperback. I hope to release the e-book in the next few days.

John P.