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Pawn of Shadows
「祟りじゃ！」『八つ墓村』 "It's the curse!""The Village of the Eight Graves" Funny how the Chiikawa film ended up a better mystery film than this one...Tatsuya, a young man struggling to find work in Tokyo, is...
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Fatal Paradise
"But, Mr. Hira Dass, decapitation is not an American mode of murder!""Clues of the Caribbees" There's something about reading a book about travelling around the islands of the Caribbees every morning...
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The Stolen Show
“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot.""The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"Not a huge fan of the cover to be honest, it's kinda hard to make out what it is, especially digitally....The...
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Wrong Number
I kind of liked it your wayHow you shyly placed your eyes on meDid you ever know that I had mine on you?"Eyes on Me" (Faye Wong) I don't actually have the edition with this particular cover, but I...
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The Quick and the Dead
"Bring out your dead!""Monty Python and the Holy Grail" You know what's great about discussing a mystery set in a world that works like in a Japanese fantasy role-playing game? The fact this one isn't...
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The Sign of the Four
"Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.""Monty Python and the Holy Grail"To be honest, I had forgotten I hadn't written a review of this book yet...
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The Case of the Captured Queen
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!""Through the Looking-Glass" The...
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The Tell-Tale Bottle
"(...) uttered slowly, but clearly and impressively, the words — “Thou art the man!""Thou Art the Man" It must have been years since I last did a review of a non-fictional work...Nazotoki Edgar Allan...
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A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
"No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.""A Christmas Carol" A few months ago, I reviewed Killer X, a novel...
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Dead in the Water
「何とかなれ！」『ちいかわ』 "It'll somehow work out!"Chiikawa Today's post: the most anticipated mystery film of this summer. Chiikawa and their friends come across an invitation to a tropical island, which...
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Spooky Space Kook
I start running in town, with the bright sun in my back"I want to shout I love you" (BAAD) 眩しい日差しを背に 走り出す街の中 「君が好きだと叫びたい」(BAAD) It was funny to see everyone trying film that iconic opening of the Slam...
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Summer Apocalypse
夏の幻瞳閉じて 一番最初に君を思い出すよ『夏の幻』(Garnet Crow) A summer illusionWhen I close my eyes the first time I remember is you"A Summer Illusion" (Garnet Crow) For some reason a lot of the books I discuss this year...
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Mecha Mutt Menace
"Well, my friend, robots cannot kill, their prime directive..."- "I know, I know, I know, it's the first program that's laid into any robot's brain, from the simplest Dumb to most complex Super Voc....
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The Man in the Mist
"Very few of us are what we seem.""The Man in the Mist"This will probably be the longest novel I'll read this year, being slightly longer than Asukabe Katsunori's Massatsu Goth Gods, which I reviewed...
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Resurrection
"That's the name my stupid parents gave me! I like to be called by my Goth name: Nightpayne.""South Park" So just around the time I finished this book (in February), Asukabe released another new...
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A Fashionable Way to Die
"Manners. Maketh. Man.""Kingsman: The Secret Service" Went to a very busy but small ramen restaurant in Kouenji once. It was run by an elderly man who did everything by himself, and it was very busy at...
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The Four-Headed Dragon
One little soldier boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none. "And Then There Were None"Great cover!Kubinohara is a tiny rural village in the cold north of Gunma...
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In Search of the Black Rose
With bony hands I hold my partner, on soulless feet we cross the floor"Grim Fandango" Phew, was I glad to hear this was getting a normal re-release, because all those facsimile re-releases are rather...
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Trace Memory
ひとつの目で明日をみてひとつの目で昨日を見つめてる「The Real Folk Blues」（山根麻衣） With one eye I look at tomorrow With one eye I keep staring at yesterday "The Real Folk Blues" (Yamane Mai)Oh, this reminds me I never finished the...
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Mind Over Murder
If I'm not back again this time tomorrowCarry on, carry on as if nothing really matters"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen) Disclosure: I have translated Arisugawa Alice's The Moai Island Puzzle.Every Saturday,...
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