The Locked Room: Classic Mysteries in Review: Sweet Danger, Margery Allingham

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Beneath the Stains of Time

Ho-Ho-Homicide: "A Murder in Christmas Village" (2015) by Alex Colwell - I first read about Alex Colwell's short story, "A Murder in Christmas Village" (2015), on a now long since deleted website, "The Locked Room Mystery," co...
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My Reader's Block

Reprint of the Year: McKee of Centre Street - For the last several years, Kate at *Cross Examining Crime* has been rounding up the vintage mystery bloggers and having us perpetuate her brilliant b...
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Vintage Pop Fictions

Dean Koontz’s Demon Seed - Dean Koontz’s proto-cyberpunk science fiction *Demon Seed* was published in 1973. You have to be really careful with this one. He extensively revised the ...
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In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel

Reprint Of The Year 2024 – They Can’t Hang Me by James Ronald - Time for the second round of nominations for the Reprint of the Year award, a “competition” to decide which of the many, many classic crime books that were...
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Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?

Twelve Days of Phonemas - by Katherine Roberts - On the first day of Christmas my smartphone sent to me A large mast in a fir tree. On the second day of Christmas my smartphone sent to me Two service ...
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Ontos

"You Mean, Mister, That a Man Oughter Be Able To Do a Murder an' Not Be Found Out?" - *JUST AS SOME WRITERS seem to be born to make us laugh while others have a flair for drama, there is a subset of authors who are adept at producing crime f...
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Killer Covers

“The Mutilators,” by Basil Heatter -
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Mystery Fanfare

WINTER SOLSTICE CRIME FICTION // WINTER SOLSTICE MYSTERIES - *I love the Winter Solstice. *I love light, so I'm glad the days will now begin to lengthen. I put together a* huge list of Christmas Mysteries again th...
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Criminal Element

Book Review: Those Opulent Days by Jacquie Pham - Duy, Edmond, Phong, and Minh have been the best of friends ever since Edmond sauntered over to the other boys on the playground of their private school and...
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'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Forgotten Book - Bland Beginning - I must at some time have read Julian Symons' early (1949) mystery *Bland Beginning*, but it left no impression on me. Having now had another read of the...
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Mystery*File

Diary Review: ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE – September 1967. - ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE. September 1967. Overall rating: *** ELLERY QUEEN “Wedding Anniversary,” Ellery Queen’s final return to Wrightsville is m...
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The Cozy Mystery List Blog

December 16 to December 22 - Here is the list of new releases for December 16 to December 22! Jenna Bennett (aka Jennie Bentley & Bente Gallagher): Mischief at Marsden Manor (6th in th...
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Type M for Murder

How the Sausage is Made - I read Tom's entry about letting your newly-finished MS rest, below, with great sympathy and understanding. Mainly because I am doing the exact same thing...
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The Rap Sheet

That’s One Hard-boiled “Carol” - *(Above) The movie trailer for Blue Christmas.* Charles Dickens could have had no inkling, when he penned his 1843 novella, *A Christmas Carol*, how dura...
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Promoting Crime Fiction by Lizzie Hayes

‘Istanbul Crossing’ by Timothy Jay Smith - *Published by Leapfrog Press, 24 September 2024. ISBN: 978-1-94858599-6 (PB)* *Istanbul Crossing* is an easy to read, sensitively written story based i...
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The Dusty Bookcase

Elinor Glyn's Christmas Ghost Story (and others) - *The Contrast and Other StoriesElinor GlynLondon: Duckworth, 1913312 pages* As is typical of short story collections, this book is overshadowed by the ...
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The Passing Tramp

Not a Nice to Place to Visit--and You Might End up Dying There: Pop 1280 (1964) by Jim Thompson - *"Just how big is Pottsville, anyways?" "Well, sir," I said, "there's a road sign just outside of town that says 'Pop. 1280,' so I guess that's about it...
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MYSTERIES in PARADISE

Review: MURDER ON THE OXFORD CANAL, Faith Martin - - This edition available as an e-book from Amazon on Kindle - first published 2004 - ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0763RXLRV - Publisher ‏ : ‎ Joffe Books...
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Tipping My Fedora

10. Edward G. Robinson’s gangsters, with Craig Ian Mann - https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mutps-1735d64 To celebrate what would have been the 131st birthday of Hollywood icon Edward G. Robinson, Sergio is j...
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Small Crimes

The Roommate - Black Cat Weekly allows me to write and get published unusual mystery and crime stories that don't fit the standard mystery magazines. In this week's B...
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Alpha-60 Books

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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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 ...
1 year 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...
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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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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
Ivebeenreadinglately

A post that is not quite a post - When I restarted this blog three weeks ago, I said that I would try to post most weeks, usually on Sunday mornings. That is still my plan, and there will d...
4 years ago
The Post Modern Pulp Blog

Fiction Friday: STONY MAN DOCTRINE - My first cover-to-cover read of 2020 was this classic. I first read STONY MAN DOCTRINE back in either junior high or high school - I can't recall which -...
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Crime Always Pays

THE LAMMISTERS: a bourbon-smooth riot, apparently - It’s been a busy end to 2019 for yours truly, folks, and we wind down tired but happy, with THE LAMMISTERS published – something I thought would never hap...
4 years ago
Mysterious Press

We've just added American novelist and cartoonist Lawrence Lariar to our list! - Lawrence Lariar (1908–1981) was an American novelist, cartoonist and cartoon editor, known for his Best Cartoons of the Year series of cartoon collection...
5 years ago
Writers No One Reads

From wikipedia (which is based on this timeline): In 1977,... - From wikipedia (which is based on this timeline): In 1977, [Yayoi] Kusama published a book of poems and paintings entitled *7*. One year later, her firs...
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Detectives Beyond Borders

Shot at the Edgars - Peter Lovesey, named an MWA Grand Master at the 2018 Edgar Awards. Photo by Peter Rozovsky for Detectives Beyond Borders. © Peter Rozovsky 2018
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Past Offences

Reading wrap-up for July 2017 - I’ve had a bit of a rest for a couple of months, during which my blog traffic has gone through the roof, which fact should probably teach me something abou...
7 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...
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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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Vanished Into Thin Air

Claude Aveline: La doppia morte dell’Ispettore Belot (La Double Mort de Frédéric Belot, 1932) – Translation: Cesare Giardini – Preface: Alberto Tedeschi – in appendix: Double note sur le roman policier en général et sur cette “Suite”en particulier – Oscar Mondadori N. 1556 – August 1982 - More the time passes, more I find references to a question that springs to mind every time, and so I can not answer: why in 1932 were born many masterpie...
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Ed Gorman's blog

Book Review: ZIGZAG by Bill Pronzini - ZIGZAG You can’t fake it, the kind of mastery Bill Pronzini shows in all his writing, whatever the genre, whatever the length. And his years of ...
8 years ago
Hi-Fi Sci-Fi

Preferred Risk by Frederick Pohl and Lester del Rey - Does for the insurance business what Pohl and Kornbluth's *The Space Merchants* did for the advertising world. As explained in the two afterwords (one b...
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Pfui

William Shatner as Archie Goodwin?, March 14, 1959 - from *New York Times*, March 14, 1959. "William Shatner has been signed to star with Kurt Kasznar in a pilot film that may be the basis for a 'Nero Wolfe...
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Sweet Danger, Margery Allingham

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