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Catcher on the Sly
"His whole frame at once -- within the space of a single minute, or even less, shrunk -- crumbled -- absolutely rotted away beneath my hands. Upon the bed, before that whole company, there lay a nearly...
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The Reader is Warned
Caveat lectorI might be deceiving the reader about today's book's contents in this review without actually lying too. Or not. *dundundun*I have read locked room mysteries with locked room lectures, I...
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番外編：Lending the Key to the Locked Room Released
When The Red Locked Room was released earlier this year, I mentioned how Locked Room International didn't have a full-length Japanese release in 2019 after the annual releases of The Decagon House...
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The Professor and the Puzzle
"Archaeology is the search for fact ... not truth.""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"Like I mentioned in the review of the first volume in this series: despite the cover art, these stories aren't...
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Turnabout Memories - Part 10
"I have to go over everything that's happened. I have to remember"Another Code R: Journey into Lost MemoriesFor some it might've felt like the longest year ever, for some it might've been busier than...
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Pilgrim
"It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.""Sleeping Murder" Last one for this year! When she was a child, Iwanaga Kotoko was chosen by youkai (all kinds of supernatural...
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What You Don't Know Can Kill You
「推理小説には「特殊設定ミステリ」というジャンルがあってね」「はあ」「その中では、物語世界だけで通用する超自然的な現象が登場し、それにまつわる特別ルールが提供されるのがお約束になっている。そして、その特別ルールが謎解きの前提条件になるんだ」『孤島の来訪者』 "So there's this genre they call theSpecial Setting...
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Lights, Camera...
Memories brought back by hidden records. A Mystery & Suspense story set in Shimane prefecture."Root Film"First game review of the year! I played this one near the end of last year, and it was...
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Mystery Solvers Club State Finals
「いえいえ、僕のようなプロのミステリー読みにかかれば、たとえが事件が起きる前であっても、犯人がわかるのです」「プ、プロのミステリー読み！そ、それはすごい。恥ずかしながらわたくし、プロのミステリー読みを自称する人に、生まれ初めて会いました！」『ミステリー・アリーナ』"No no, if you're a professional reader of mysteries like me, you'll...
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Trouble Times Two
Something old, something newWhen it comes to mystery fiction, I usually try to avoid reading stories with similar settings/themes in succession, mostly because I'm afraid I'll get burned out on a...
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Two-Sided Affair
Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them."The Detective Story Decalogue"Like last week's regular review, this novel too is set around New Year....
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A Treacherous Tide
夏を待つセイルのように君のことをずーっとずっとずっと思っているよ「夏を待つセイルのように」(Zard)Like a sail waiting for summerI'm always, alwaysalways thinking of you"Like a Sail Waiting For Summer" (Zard)Think I've been on a sailing boat only...
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Crime in the Cards
「麻雀なぞ知らんでも、麻雀まんがは描けるーる！！」「サルでも描けるまんが教室」 "You don't have to know anything about mahjong to draw mahjong manga!" "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga"It's actually crazy how I managed to watch a whole series of...
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Open-Door Murder
The more the merrier! When the number of suspects is continually increasing, and the number of corpses remains constant, you get a sort of inflation. The value of your individual suspect, of course,...
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Sabotage at Sports City
All that glisters is not gold"The Merchant of Venice"I've always had a weakness for murders mysteries where the crime occurs during a public event like a sports match, though I guess I haven't seen...
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The Clue in the Old Album
「フェルマーの名にかけて！」 「TRICK」 "In the name of Fermat!" "Trick"I honestly first heard of Fermat and his last theorem from watching Trick.Special events were organized in both the United States and the United...
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Death of a Butterfly
ゴキゲンな蝶になってきらめく風に乗って今すぐ キミに会いに行こう「Butter-Fly」（和田光司） I'll become a happy butterfly, and glide on the glittering windTo come see you right away"Butter-Fly" (Wada Kouji)Oh man, I have a backlog of more...
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Death in the Park
Nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (FitzGerald tr.)Some of you may have noticed it already, but I...
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The Eight of Swords
"He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword""The Doomdorf Mystery"EDIT: Hey, the Famicom Detective Club remakes are also coming west! And with a May release, I really should speed up...
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How Watson Learned the Trick
"I'm lost without my Boswell.""A Scandal in Bohemia"Not sure if anyone reads the page, but I added Turn of the Golden Witch to the Umineko no Naku koro ni playthrough memo. I love short story...
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