Locked Room International

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.

Locked room international.

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. How was it done. It is ideally a mystery which follows golden age rules about providing fair clues to the reader and also poses the question.

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. My first experience reading a lri publication predates this blog that was the fantastic the decagon house murders which i would heartily recommend. What is a locked room mystery. The final story the red locked room can lay claim to be one of the finest ever written in the genre.

A locked room is a special case of the more general impossible crime in which one or more victims are discovered dead in. John pugmire has now through locked room international published 17 previously non anglophone books from the roland lacourbe curated locked room library list all but one being his own translations. Few writers of detective fiction can match both john dickson carr and freeman wills crofts at their own game. Welcome to locked room international.

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