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Beneath the Stains of Time

Welcome to the niche corner, dedicated to the great detective stories of yore and their neo-classical descendants.

  • By TomCat
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Most recent posts

Locked and Loaded, Part 5: A Selection of Short Impossible Crime and Locked Room Mystery Stories
Every now and then, I do one of these "Locked and Loaded" posts to read and review mostly obscure, often uncollected short locked room mysteries and impossible crime stories covering nearly a century of miraculous …
On , by TomCat, 1,865 words
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 round of voting for the "New Locked Room Library" – …
On , by TomCat, 2,251 words
The Crossword Mystery (1979) by Robert B. Gillespie
Robert B. Gillespie is, or perhaps was, an American writer who authored eight now largely forgotten, out-of-print crime, detective and thriller novels – published between 1979 and 1990. Only his first mystery novel appears to …
On , by TomCat, 1,476 words