Happy and Prosperous 2020…

…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.

Long-awaited Locked Room Murders Supplement now available!

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

Invitation from NY Times

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