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

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Vintage Pop Fictions

Vampirella Archives vol 3 - *Vampirella Archives vol 3* collects issues 15 to 21 of the original *Vampirella* comic book when it was still published by Warren Publications. These iss...
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Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading / Diary Review: DASHIELL HAMMETT “$106,000 Blood Money.” - DASHIELL HAMMETT “$106,000 Blood Money.” First published in Black Mask, May 1927. Collected in The Big Nightmare (Random House, 1966). Sequel to “The Bi...
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Death for a Dietitian - *Death for a Dietitian* (1988) by E. X. Giroux A departure novel for Giroux--her usual sleuth barrister Robert Forsythe is buried in cases and so when ...
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'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

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Beneath the Stains of Time

And Then There Were Nyan (2024) by A.Z. Ruin - So for the past three, four months, I've been reading, rating and reviewing impossible crime novels and short stories that were nominated in the first ro...
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7. Black Tuesday, with Barry Forshaw, Craig Ian Mann and Sheldon Hall - https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yqug2-1708e51 Sergio previews the UK Blu-ray release of the 1954 drama Black Tuesday, which is being released today ...
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Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?

Out and About by Allison Symes - *Image Credit: Images from the ACW Autumn Gathering Day were taken by me, Allison Symes. Many thanks to Janet Williams, my lovely editor at Chandler’s For...
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In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel

Death Rites (2024) by Sarah Ward - Jericho, New England. Carla James has joined the archaeology department of Jericho University, emigrating from England to try and rebuild her life followin...
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The Rap Sheet

Revue of Reviewers: 11-17-24 - *Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more.*
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The Cozy Mystery List Blog

We Had a Ticket to Ride… - We just got back from visiting our daughter, son-in-law, and four year old granddaughter in the Washington, DC area. We had a great time! We’ve been fortun...
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Small Crimes

My promises about PARIAH - Several promises I can make about Pariah. 1. It's as "hell-on-wheels" a crime novel as you'll find 2. Nothing I've written is as opposite to my...
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Killer Covers

Another Look: “Dead Men’s Plans” -
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The Passing Tramp

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Who Dies There? (James Duff, 1956) - Graphic Books has become one of my favourite pulp publishers in recent years. I love their dark covers, and it happened more than once that I would buy the...
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No One Reads Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954). But anyone else reading his Java Head today because of… - No One Reads Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954). But anyone else reading his *Java Head* today because of the story in this Granta piece by Christian Lorent...
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Death Can Read

Paul Halter: The White Lady (LE MYSTERE DE LA DAME BLANCHE) - trad. John Pugmire. - Locked Room International , August 2020 - The novel in question is the latest in the series dedicated to the second of Paul Halter's characters: in fact it was published in 2020. The stra...
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Tony Renner: Artist

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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Mysterious Press

Ben Crandel Returns - Murray Sinclair's Ben Crandel series makes a return in print and ebook formats.
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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...
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Past Offences

Christmas has come early… - … courtesy of the British Library. Two more sleeps before opening though.Filed under: Witness Statements
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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MYSTERIES in PARADISE

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Corpse Diplomatique, Delano Ames

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