Locked Room International

A locked room is a special case of the more general impossible crime in which one or more victims are discovered dead in.

Locked room international.

My first experience reading a lri publication predates this blog that was the fantastic the decagon house murders which i would heartily recommend. The japanese term shin honkaku refers to the logic mystery genre similar to what we think of as a puzzle plot mystery. Publisher locked room international has been translating foreign language impossible crime novels into english. Locked room international is a small press that has done a fantastic job of producing english translations of locked room and impossible crime mysteries from around the world.

Welcome to locked room international. Included in this superb collection by tetsuya ayukawa recognized as the doyen of the honkaku mystery are four impossible crime stories and three unbreakable alibi tales. The final story the red locked room can lay claim to be one of the finest ever written in the genre. It is ideally a mystery which follows golden age rules about providing fair clues to the reader and also poses the question.

Ruth ware s the woman in cabin 10 is a locked room mystery set on the high seas covering an assignment for her boss reporter lo blacklock joins fellow travel reporters photographers celebrities and investors on the maiden voyage of the aurora a luxury cruise liner. Few writers of detective fiction can match both john dickson carr and freeman wills crofts at their own game. Many are by japanese authors because of the genre s popularity in japan. This brings lri s roster up to 38 books a frankly incredible achievement and hopefully a long way from finished yet comprising among others paul halter a shin honkaku.

Locked room murders supplement by brian skupin 2019 a completely new addition to robert adey s bibliography published by locked room international and containing 1 156 new entries not included in that pioneering work comprising not just novels and short stories but also examples found in movies television shows manga and anime.