Call for help answered
Many thanks to those who volunteered to proofread. I received many more application than I anticipated. I will happily involve all those who answered the call in future projects, but I won’t be able to...
View ArticleSeason’s Greetings
I wish all LRI readers all the best for the holiday season and thank you for your support (and your e-mails which are always welcome). Let us end the year on an encouraging note, from the UK:...
View ArticleWho says the Golden Age is dead?
The Washington Post just published its list of the top 50 fiction books of 2014. That’s all fiction, not just mystery fiction. The Derek Smith Omnibus was at number 12:...
View ArticleRIP Robert Adey, Gentleman and Scholar
I have just learned, to my intense sorrow, of the death of Robert Adey (Bob to all of his friends). Bob, of course, is known to all locked room fans for his bibliography Locked Room Murders, the...
View ArticleThe House That Kills
Not for nothing is Noel Vindry known as “the French John Dickson Carr.” Between 1932 and 1937 he wrote twelve locked room novels, of a quality and quantity to rival the master himself, yet he has so...
View ArticleThe Decagon House Murders
I’m delighted to announce that Yukito Ayatsuji’s classic is now available on Amazon and Kindle. It’s the book which is credited with re-launching the Golden Age style novel (known locally as honkaku)...
View ArticlePrice Changes
Dear Reader, I am pleased to announce that as of today, the prices of the following five Paul Halter books and e-books will be reduced to $15.99 and $7.99 respectively: The Fourth Door; The Demon of...
View ArticleThe Washington Post discovers Honkaku
Japanese honkaku writers rejoice! July 16, 2015 was a red-letter day! One of the most influential mystery reviewers in America, Michael Dirda (a Pulitzer Prize winner and an elegant writer) vowed, in...
View ArticlePaul Halter’s The Phantom Passage is now available
This is LRI’s tenth Halter novel, featuring his Edwardian-era detective Owen Burns, who regards murder as an art form if done elegantly enough. It received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly:...
View ArticleWhistle Up the Devil and Come to Paddingon Fair now available separately
The two titles were previously only available by ordering The Derek Smith Omnibus. As of today, each will be available separately, albeit without the Bob Adey introduction and the background material...
View ArticleOn PW Best Mystery/Thriller List 2015
LRI has been honoured for a second time by Publisher’s Weekly. Just as in 2013, when Paul Halter’s The Crimson Fog was named, this year it’s Yukito Ayatsuji’s turn with The Decagon House Murders....
View ArticleHard Cheese — Swedish Locked Room
Just out. Locked room lovers will delight in this cleverly constructed and genuinely funny mystery, full of references to the classics of the genre. Gunnar Lundgren, a detective sergeant in a small...
View ArticleHard Cheese review
Publisher’s Weekly just issued a digital review. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-517419-78-3
View ArticleDeath Invites You
Paul Halter’s devilishly clever early novel (the first case on which Twist and Hurst worked together) involves a famous locked room author found dead in a locked room slumped over a piping hot meal....
View ArticleAnother great Hard Cheese review
CADS HCH Review March 2016 This review of Hard Cheese appeared in issue #72 of Crime and Detective Stories (affectionately known as CADS to its readers, among the most sophisticated and knowledgeable...
View ArticlePrice Reductions
As of today, the following prices have been reduced: The Invisible Circle and The Picture from the Past: tpb from $19.99 to $15.99 and e-book from $9.99 to 7.99 The Derek Smith Omnibus tpb from $29.99...
View ArticleThe Moai Island Puzzle
Publisher’s Weekly starred review, the sixth since we started submitting our publications to them: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-523935130
View ArticleThe Howling Beast
Publisher’s Weekly has just given Noel Vindry’s The Howling Beast a starred review. http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-530995080 . It is regarded as one of the masterpieces of French locked room...
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Bodies from the Library 2016
The second conference organised by the British Library on Golden Age detective fiction was held on June 11, 2016. About 200 enthusiasts filled the cozy (so to speak) auditorium and were entertained for...
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