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Question!
I am a fan of the Challenge to the Reader (Viewer/Listener/Player/etc.) in mystery fiction. Yes, it's awfully artificial and meta to suddenly stop the story to directly address the reader to say that...
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The Girl Who Couldn't Remember
Memento moriThe last few years, all my encounters with Kitayama Takekuni were through Danganronpa, whether it being through his spin-off novel series Danganronpa Kirigiri or through his advisory role...
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A Murder of Ravens
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore."The Raven" (Edgar Allan Poe) In Japan, the term funiki gee (lit: "atmospheric game")...
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Where There's a Will
That's one small step for [a] manNeil Armstrong Last year, I reviewed the not very memorable Moord in de Ridderzaalby Theo Joekes, a novel I had picked up in the town's free library, where you can...
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To Survive
"Space: The final frontier.""Star Trek"There are always many, many interesting-looking titles that I want to get to eventually, but which in the end never actually make it out of the wish list....
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The Girl Who Wasn't There
"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office"- Mae West When in doubt, read a Crofts.Inspector French seriesInspector French and the Starvel Tragedy (1927)Inspector French and the Box Office Murders...
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The Adventure of The Silent Partner
I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was To catch them is my real testTo train them is my causePokémon Theme (Jason Paige) Sooo, was the biggest detective-themed Hollywood movie of this year for...
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
空を自由に飛びたいな「はい、タケコプター」「ドラえもんのうた」（大山のぶ代）I'd love to fly freely in the sky- Here, a Bamboo Copter!(The Song of Doraemon) (Ooyama Nobuyo)Huh, I never had expected to be writing about Doraemon here. And I'm...
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Snow Place Like Home
秋に秋の実りがあり冬には冬の厳しさがる「籟・来・也」（Garnet Crow)Fall brings the harvest of fallAnd winter brings the harshness of winter"Rai Rai Ya" (Garnet Crow)One of my favorite discoveries of last year was Nemoto Shou's...
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The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
「握った拳の中にまるで何があるように思わせるのがマジシャンで、その拳を開く前に中身を言い当てるのが探偵だろ？」『名探偵コナン 紺青の拳（フィスト）』"A magician can make you believe he's holding something in his fist, but it's a detective who can guess what's inside the fist...
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Watch Out! The Willawaw!
“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"Considering Toujou Genya is always getting involved with murder...
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Pirate Ship of Fools
I trust that you now find yourself aboard the Obra Dinn. I expected this day to come and my every intention was to tell the ship's strange tale within the pages of this book."Return of the Obra Dinn"A...
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Lie, Lie, Lie
"The truth is out there""The X-Files"Hey, have you heard about Steel Lady Nanase? The stories of a ghost who carries a steel beam and attacks people around Makurazaka City? They say she's the ghost of...
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Come Undone
"Foaf is a word I invented to stand for 'friend of a friend,' the person to whom so many of these dreadful things I am about to recount happens.""It's True, It Happened to a Friend" (Dale, R. 1984)I...
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Crooked House
About a year ago, I wrote a short piece about how I love dramatis personae, name lists and those 'floating name signs' you see visual mystery fiction, because in general, I'm horrible at remembering...
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E=Murder
an + bn = cn(Fermat's last theorem)I'm horrible at the exact sciences.. I imagine that if Q.E.D.Shoumei Shuuryou did its unique style of mystery telling not with mathematics or similar fields of...
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Murders On-Line
"Arrested for Youtube crimes""Pop Team Epic"In an article I wrote earlier this year, I noted how I think many contemporary mystery authors still seem to struggle with implementing modern technology in...
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The Riddle in the Rare Book
「危険思想とは常識を実行に移そうとする思想である」『侏儒の言葉』"The ideology of putting common sense into practice, is a dangerous ideology.""Words of a Dwarf"And it's only after writing this whole review I realized it was also six...
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The Whispering Statue
Three little Soldier Boys walking in the zoo;A big bear hugged one and then there were two."And Then There Were None"I learned a lot on the development of mystery and detective manga after reading the...
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?With silver bells, and cockle shells,And pretty maids all in a row(English nursery rhyme)Meanwhile, the upcoming Detective Conan volume is scheduled...
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