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Dead Man's Gold
Rheingold! Rheingold! Leuchtende Lust wie lachst du so hell und hehr! "Das Rheingold" Rhine gold! Rhine gold! Radiant joy, thou laughest in glorious light!"The Rhinegold" (Frederick Jameson...
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Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
残酷な天使のテーゼ少年よ神話になれ (残酷な天使のテーゼ」(高橋洋子) A Cruel Angel's ThesisBoy, become a legend "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" (Takahashi Youko)A few weeks ago, I reviewed one of Kitayama Takekuni's earlier novels, today...
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To Kill a Legend
犯人はこの中にいる！『金田一少年の事件簿』 "The murderer is among us!""The Case Files of Young Kindaichi"This year, Kindaichi Hajime, grandson of the famous detective Kindaichi Kousuke, "celebrates" thirty years of solving...
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Old Habits Die Hard
"Extra, extra, read all about it!"Huh, I am really using the anthology tag only once a year...Disclosure: I am a member of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. However, I didn't vote for the...
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RePainTrick
君の笑顔ひとつで救われたんだ magic of the smile"Magic" (愛内里菜) I was saved by a single smile of youMagic of the smile "Magic" (Aiuchi Rina)Today: a book I should have read a different time.Most knowledge on magic had...
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Ask a Policeman
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do "One" (Three Dog Night)Aibou ("Partners") is a very succesful police drama in Japan that's been running since 2000, with season 20 probably nearing its...
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Death Casts a Spell
"It's midnight.""Cinderella"I watched a lot of the classic Disney feature-length animated films when I was little, but Cinderella is one of the few I never saw...The Thompson family was once a...
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Dead Justice
Where do we go from here? When does the end appear?"Once More With Feeling" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)The focus of this blog is mystery fiction in the broad sense of the word, so I also look at media...
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Murder Digs Deep
「事件は会議室で起きてるんじゃない！ 現場で起きてるんだ！！ 」『踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE』 "The case isn't happening in your conference rooms!! It's happening down here, at the scene!!""Bayside Shakedown"The Nintendo DS was in many ways an...
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When Thieves Fall Out
"When Peter suddenly asked him the question he decided all at once to do the meanest and most spiteful thing he could think of. He decided to let Lucy down.”"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"When...
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Wheel of Death
It's the circle of lifeAnd it moves us all"Circle of Life" (Elton John)For me, my enjoyment of mystery fiction comes for a great deal from the feeling of catharsis when at the end of the story, the...
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The Ice-Cold Case
Oh, this is the first time I read a book in this series since the publication of the English translation of Lending the Key to the Locked Room. Which immediately brings me to: Disclosure: I translated...
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Trouble in Eden
Wishing on a dream that seems far offHoping it will come today"Lunar: Silver Star"I am probably not the only person here with a sizeable backlog of unread books. In some cases, I just want to finish a...
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Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice
There was a man, a very untidy man, Whose fingers could nowhere be found, To put in his tomb. I read a lot of series here, but I don't really often "finish" series now I think about it... Disclosure: I...
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Who Ya Gonna Call?
We’re not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow, there’s not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn’t be...
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Don't Monkey With Murder
"Now is the time for the ultimate in Monkey Kombat!" "Escape from Monkey Island"So I've been running behind with writing some of my reviews... I wrote this post eight months after reading this...
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The Second Shot
Prepare for trouble!And make it double!"Pokémon"I read today's book as a digital release, but I have to this slight annoyance with the bunko-size pockets published by some publishers like Bunshun (of...
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The Voice in the Dark
I can open your eyes Take you wonder by wonder"A Whole New World" (Brad Kane, Lea Salonga)I think I have mentioned it before when discussing historical mysteries here, but I am not particularly strong...
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Murder, She Spoke
"Follow me to a place where incredible feats are routine every hour or so""Arabian Nights" (Return of Jafar ver.)Before the television, and before comic books were widely available, one of the major...
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A Murder of Crows
"People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead.""The Crow"Another mystery manga post in the same week!?Thirty years ago, in 1992, comic readers were...
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