The Locked Room: Classic Mysteries in Review: Corpse Diplomatique, Delano Ames

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Mystery*File

Reviewed by Dan Stumpf: ERIC NEWBY – The Last Grain Race. - REVIEWED BY DAN STUMPF: ERIC NEWBY – The Last Grain Race. Secker & Warburg, UK, hardcover, 1956. Reprinted several times, including Lonely Planet, soft...
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My Reader's Block

The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla - *The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla* (1937) by Stuart Palmer Inspector Oscar Piper is headed to Mexico for a well-deserved vacation. Sure, he has to be ...
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Ontos

"He Could No Longer Stop the Mystic Juggernaut" - *"The Candidate."* *By Henry Slesar (1927-2002; Wikipedia HERE; IMDb HERE; The Hitchcock Zone HERE; ISFDb HERE).* *First appearance: Rogue, August 1961.* *R...
15 hours ago
Promoting Crime Fiction by Lizzie Hayes

‘The Glass Woman’ by Alice McIlroy - *Published by Datura Crime, 2 January 2024. ISBN: 978-1-91552304-4* Thirty-five-year-old Iris comes to in hospital in pain and not remembering a thing...
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Mystery Fanfare

PASSOVER CRIME FICTION //PASSOVER MYSTERIES - *Passover *starts Monday night and lasts for *eight days*. That should give you plenty of time to read these mysteries set during the holiday. This is an ...
17 hours ago
The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for May 2024 - Oh, my! It’s already May! I’m getting this Turner Classic Mystery Movies list ready in mid April, and already we’ve had several days in the mid 80s. It’s g...
18 hours ago
Criminal Element

Book Review: She’s Not Sorry by Jeff Ayers - An ICU nurse struggles to stay emotionally detached from a case in Mary Kubica’s latest thriller. Work-life is already challenging for Meghan Michaels, as ...
19 hours ago
Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?

The Joys of Author Interviews by Allison Symes - Image Credit: Images created in Book Brush using Pixabay photos. I love author interviews whether I conduct them (for an online magazine) or if I’m readin...
1 day ago
The Passing Tramp

Worse Angels of Our Nature: No Evil Angel (1964), by Elizabeth Linington - After launching her *Dell Shannon* and *Lesley Egan* series in 1960 and 1961 respectively (and penning a one-shot Gothic as *Anne Blaisdell*), *Elizabeth ...
1 day ago
The Dusty Bookcase

Morley Callaghan's Red Ryan Rocket - *More Joy in HeavenMorley CallaghanNew York: Random House, 1937278 page**s* It's been decades since Intro to CanLit II, my second introduction to Cana...
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Beneath the Stains of Time

Death of an Author (1935) by E.C.R. Lorac - Edith Caroline Rivett was a British mystery novelist who, over a thirty year period, penned over seventy detective novels and a smattering of short stori...
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MYSTERIES in PARADISE

Review: THE HEIGHTS, Louise Candlish - - this edition from my local library - published by Simon & Schuster 2021 - 432 pages - ISBN 978-1-4711-8349-2 *Synopsis* (publisher) ...
2 days ago
Type M for Murder

Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts - by Sybil JohnsonI’ve written a couple posts before about some of the podcasts I’ve listened to over the last few years. I admit that I haven’t listened to...
2 days ago
Vintage Pop Fictions

Thorp McClusky’s Loot of the Vampire - Thorp McClusky’s short novel *Loot of the Vampire* was published in two parts in *Weird Tales* in 1936. It’s a vampire story in a contemporary big-city Am...
2 days ago
The Rap Sheet

Winnowing Down the Competition - Adding to the recent shower of prize nominations for crime, mystery, and thriller fiction come the 2024 CrimeFest Awards shortlists. The winners of these a...
2 days ago
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Sepulchre Street and the eDunnit award shortlist - I'm truly delighted by the announcement today of the shortlist for the eDunnit award at CrimeFest this year, which as you can see from the above graphic ...
2 days ago
Death Can Read

William Willoughby Sharp : Murder of the Honest Broker, 1934 (Italian Edition: Morte di un broker onesto - translator: Marilena Caselli - Publishing House Polillo, 2024) - Willoughby Sharp... who could he be? one could say paraphrasing Alessandro Manzoni. The great tomes of detective literature, dictionaries like the M...
3 days ago
In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel

Death Under Snowdon (1952) by Glyn Carr - “Someone is manipulating evidence. Someone is being clever. And that, in my peevish way, I begin to resent.” Mr Abercrombie Lewker, actor-manager, mountain...
4 days ago
Alpha-60 Books

Never Kill a Cop (John B. West, 1961) - What a difference does it make when I know in advance that the book I'm about to read is going to suck! I remember reading one of the Rocky Steele series l...
1 week ago
Killer Covers

Another Look: “The D.A. Breaks an Egg” -
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Tony Renner: Artist

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Small Crimes

More Julius Katz and Archie On sale now! - "The puzzles are clever, and Zeltserman plays fair with readers. Stout devotees will be delighted with this loving homage." Publishers Weekly (starred ...
1 month ago
Pretty Sinister Books

The Glass Heart - Marty Holland - Down on his luck Curt Blair is waiting out a rainstorm in a “ritzy hash joint” just outside of Hollywood, USA when he steals a fancy camel hair overcoat ...
6 months ago
In Reference to Murder

Media Murder for Monday - It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of crime drama news: THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES Roundtable Entertainment has green...
7 months ago
Pfui

"The Doorbell Rang," Previewed by Lewis Nichols, New York Times, October 24, 1965 - From the *New York Times*, October 24, 1965: "Nero has been solving sinister problems since "Fer-de-Lance" in 1934. "The Doorbell Rang" is the 30th Ner...
1 year ago
Ivebeenreadinglately

On John Wyndham's "cosy catastrophe" novels (from 2008) - *I wrote this in late 2008 on spec for a publication, but it was never published. My notes remind me that after writing it I came across a post on the Peng...
2 years ago
Writers No One Reads

Plenty of people read Dino Buzzati, which is maybe why these... - Plenty of people read Dino Buzzati, which is maybe why these books are always hard to find: Restless Nights and The Siren, two story collections transl...
2 years ago
Classic Mysteries

The Agatha Awards - From somewhere in Cyberspace, the winners of this year's Agatha Awards for mystery writing were announced this evening at a virtual convention of mystery w...
2 years ago
The Post Modern Pulp Blog

New Release: THEY KILL FOR GOLD - So, my first new book is out, a fantasy novella that plays heavily into the 80's style, tabletop fantasy role-playing games media tie-in novel fiction vi...
3 years ago
a hot cup of pleasure

A New Home @ WordPress - Thanks for your visits and encouragement over the years. The blog has now been shifted to WordPress: https://ahotcupofpleasureagain.wordpress.com/ Please ...
4 years ago
Crime Always Pays

On Writing and Jazz - Set during the Jazz Age, THE LAMMISTERS is a novel that plunders the literary canon in the manner of a starved child let loose in a sweetshop. Of all its ...
4 years ago
Mysterious Press

Ben Crandel Returns - Murray Sinclair's Ben Crandel series makes a return in print and ebook formats.
4 years ago
Detectives Beyond Borders

Linwood Barclay, Ross Macdonald, and me: What I shot and thought at Harrogate, Part II - *Linwood Barclay signs a book foran adoring fan. Photo by PeterRozovsky by special agreementwith Detectives Beyond Borders.* I’ve never been able to g...
5 years ago
Tipping My Fedora

Arrivederci - Hope you all have a restful and loving Holiday Season and a great New Year. As I won’t be blogging again any time soon, this is something of a farewell. Pe...
6 years ago
Vanished Into Thin Air

Hake Talbot : Rim of the Pit, 1944 - Henning Nelms was born in Baltimore in 1900. He taught dramatic Literature at Middlebury College and Pennsylvania State University, and conducted several t...
6 years ago
Past Offences

Christmas has come early… - … courtesy of the British Library. Two more sleeps before opening though.Filed under: Witness Statements
6 years ago
Hi-Fi Sci-Fi

Spider-Man Comes Out to Aunt May - From July 2002, an excerpt from a larger piece: A batch of old favorite comic books picked up at a Labor Day tailgate sale last year led to a conversation...
6 years ago
Classic Mystery Hunt

Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford - [image: Image result for rise of the robots book] When acquired by FB for billions of dollars Watsapp employed 55 employees, Youtube had 150 odd employees w...
7 years ago
Book Dirt

Jesus and Caligari: a Review of Upton Sinclair’s They Call Me Carpenter - They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair I confess that I never knew much about Upton Sinclair beyond the fact that he wrote the meat-packing industry exp...
7 years ago
Ed Gorman's blog

Catching up with Max Allan Collins - *1. Tell us about your current novel. * There are a couple of things that will become available soon. One is the complete version of the ROAD TO PERDIT...
7 years ago

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Corpse Diplomatique, Delano Ames

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