The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada is an entertaining and brilliant example of the Honkaku genre in Japanese crime fiction where the mystery is solved using logical reasoning.
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Gaito Gazdanov: The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Review of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov: Suspenseful and thought-provoking, this short novel dwells on fate and mortality.
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia: I was Jack Mortimer
Last Christmas, I signed up for a one-year subscription of Pushkin Collection books. This was a gift to myself as well as to remind me to maintain a regular reading habit. I didn’t expect work to get crazy right after the new year nor for the manic pace to continue for several months. So while I have been receiving one…
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Reading Crime Fiction + Tom Rob Smith
When I was a child, I loved reading mystery and detective stories. At the beginning, I hung out with Jupe, Pete and Bob late into the night all the time. There was also Enid Blyton and her group of little friends who called themselves “The Secret Seven“, and let’s not forget Julian, Dick, Anne, Georgina and their dog…
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Stamboul Train by Graham Greene + Orient Express
I wasn’t familiar with Graham Greene until about a year ago when I came across several of his books at Nijinski, my favorite secondhand bookstore in Brussels. My first book by Greene is a 1983 copy of “Stamboul Train” that was published by Penguin Books. I chose it partly because I like the cover artwork by Paul Hogarth, and…
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