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The Three Tools of Death
"Professor Peach, in the library with the lead piping?""Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp"Obviously, Japanese comics are often featured here, but I have also reviewed Dutch and Italian comics here...
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Yesterday Love
In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room."Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"It was only while I was reading up on the...
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Personal Call
Is this a series now? Last year, I wrote an article on the role and usage of clocks and timepieces in mystery fiction, which was basically a sequel to an earlier post on glasses. Mystery fiction is at...
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The Mystery of the Fire Dragon
Lady Partridge: But the 7:58 stopping train arrived at Swindon at 8:19 owing to annual point maintenance at Wisborough Junction. John: So how did you make the connection with the 8:13 which left six...
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The Cat Who Wasn't There
"With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.""The Black Cat"Cats? Or dogs?Marriage is one of the prime reasons why Japanese women quit their job, and that's...
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Portrait in Crime
It's been quite some many years since I wrote a short post on covers of mystery novels I liked. While I seldom let cover art dictate what books I buy, I can sure tell you that I'm definitely more...
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The Ringmaster's Secret
「驚異の部屋（ヴァンダー・カンマー）をご案内します」 『C.M.B. 森羅博物館の事件目録』"Welcome to the Wunderkammer" "C.M.B. The Case Catalog of the Shinra Museum"With Q.E.D. Shoumei ShuuryouKatou Motohiro created a mystery series that was...
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The Case of the Perfect Maid
運命のルーレット廻してアレコレ深く考えるのは mystery 「運命のルーレット廻して」（Zard）Turn the roulette of fateIt's a mystery thinking deeply about this or that"Turn the Roulette of Fate" (Zard)When I reviewed Return of the Obra Dinn...
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a great film by the way.On a not so normal day in Kyoto, the young burglars Masaya and Juri sneak into...
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The House of Haunts
「答えはひとつ！」『探偵学園Ｑ］ "There's one answer!""Detective Academy Q"Are we all playing Animal Crossing New Horizons? Despite the sequel hook in the final episode in 2007's Tantei Gakuen Q Premium, readers were...
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Slip at Sea
Under the sea Darling it's betterDown where it's wetter Take it from me"The Little Mermaid"The last year or so, I've been trying out the anime original episodes of Detective Conan, so the episodes that...
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Law and Disorder
"A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason."G.K. Chesterton And still I can't help but imagine Kidd and Pink looking the way they were portrayed...
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The Treasure in the Royal Tower
自宅のソファーに腰掛けて、一冊の小説を開いた。表紙には『桜野美海子の最期』というタイトルが記されている。"I sat down in my sofa at home and opened a book. The title on the cover said The End of Sakurano Mimiko."The End of the Great Detective Sakurano...
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Into Thin Air
波の上漂う海月を見るのが好きで 「君という光」（Garnet Crow）I love looking at the jellyfish floating on the waves"The Light That Is You" (Garnet Crow) Jellyfish as a dish (Asian cuisine) is actually quite nice!The publication...
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Remote
"It is what it is.""Sherlock"The start of the academic year in Japan is in April, which is also when new students are likely to be ambushed here and there on campus by... all kinds of clubs and circles...
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Stop the Clock
"Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP , clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of...
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Blueprint for Murder
Like many of us now, I'm having a blast with the new Animal Crossing. While the game has always been about simulating life in a way, and given you a lot of furniture, clothes and other customization...
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The Picture-Perfect Mystery
Natura Artis Magistra Nature is the teacher of the arts I think it was around this period last year I went to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, to visit the All The Rembrandts exhibition. It was certainly...
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Light in the Darkness
「追いつきたい 突き止めたい その真相 最高機密」「永遠の不在証明」（東京事変） "The truth / I want to catch up to it / I want to figure it out / Top secret""The Scarlet Alibi" (Tokyo Incidents)Ever since the 1997 film Detective Conan: The...
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The Strange Message in the Parchment
Caveat lector Oh man, that Lost Winner mentioned two weeks ago in the comments sounds amazing.. Last year, I discussed Murder Off Miami (1934), the first in the Crime Dossier series by Dennis Wheatley...
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