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This time it’s from Countdown John’s Christie Journal which also covers Japanese honkaku (scratches head and strokes chin, although not necessarily in that order).

When someone says of one of your books:

“This an absolute triumph and a reminder that the Golden Age tradition is alive and well for those writers who choose to embrace it and is not limited by time, place, or even genre itself,” it’s best to lie back and enjoy it:

Turning Japanese #12: Death Among the Undead (2017) by Masahiro Imamura (translated by Ho-Ling Wong)

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.

A selection of the honkaku master’s works is now available as an e-book

The plaudits keep coming in, from Mysteries Ahoy! and The Greatest Game:

L’Homme qui aimait les nuages / The Man Who Loved Clouds (Paul Halter)

The Man Who Loved Clouds by Paul Halter