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The Faulty Stroke
"Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it.""The Mystery of the Blue Train"I am a fan of mystery fiction, by which I mean I am not solely into mystery literature. While I...
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The Clue of the Broken Locket
月が闇を照らすとき伝説が宇宙を舞う禁断のデュエルの時 タナトスが読んでる 遠く「嘆きのロザリオ」(JAM Project) When the moon casts light on the darkness, legends will dance in the skyWhen the time of the forbidden duel comes, Thanatos will call from...
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Bathtub Murder
Undinus sich winden『黒死館殺人事件』 Undinus sich winden"The Black Death Mansion Murder Case"The Tattoo Murder Case is probably one of the earliest Japanese mystery novels I ever read, so kinda funny how I...
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The Way to Dusty Death
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.""Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones"And another short comic post week!Sharaku Homura: Detective of the Uncanny...
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The Problem of Cell 13
“WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.” "Feet of Clay"To be honest, when I first heard about the story, I was hoping the book would be about a real Golem... Mitsuki Usami is an academic researcher in...
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Telltale Touch
"Only in the leap from the lion's head will he prove his worth.""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"What is it with reviews on sex-focused media that also happen to be mystery fiction this month......
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Dead Man's Cavern
"Ragnarok, the end of the Viking world with a terrible winter that covered the Earth in ice, when vile crimes were rampant and all humanity lost.""Max Payne"I wonder if at those detective fiction...
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Doom With a View
"I stopped my horse beside the building, on the edge of a dark and quiet lake. There, I could see reflected in the water a clear picture of the dead trees, and of the house and its empty eye-like...
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The Big Four
"From the ashes of this world I will build a better one. Go forth, my horsemen and let chaos cleanse the world.""X-Men The Animated Series"Hmm, funny how a lot of the reviews posted this winter are set...
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The Confused Victim
"Spoilers.""Doctor Who"Hmm, I bought this book over a year ago now I think about it, so it had been waiting for quite some time. Breezed through it within one evening though.Nakajima Kawatarou was an...
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Peril at End House
迷わずに 瞳信じて 風のららら… 「風のラララ」（倉木麻衣） Believing in what I see without any doubtsThe wind's lalala..."The Wind's Lalala" (Kuraki Mai) Huh, for some reason, I thought I had started on these books much more...
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The Chocolate-Covered Contest
"Life is like a box of chocolates.""Forest Gump"Oh, wow, are we going from the yellow/brown covers for this series to blue? I love the art!It's been over a year since I last discussed Ooyama...
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Three Doors to Death
"That is so, monsieur. I ask of you if you have any knowledge of a man named Li Chang Yen?""The Big Four" I have to admit... I really love Christie's The Big Four, not despite, but because it's so...
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Prediction: Murder
Six little Soldier Boys playing with a hive"And Then There Were None"For some reason, after reading the prologue, I thought this book would be difficult to read in terms of writing style, but I ended...
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The Witch's Curse
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)To be really honest, I wish we'd move...
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The Stranger in the Shadows
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.""Genesis" (King James version)I wouldn't say I lived *at the foot* of Mt. Hiei, but the place I was staying while living in Kyoto was pretty near...
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The Dream Team
“You see what I’m driving at? I’m made to dream the same dream, night after night, night after night—and then—one day the suggestion is too much for me—and I act upon it. I do what I’ve dreamed of so...
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Murder A La Mode
Paris in the fall, the last months of the year, at the end of the millenium. The city holds many memories for me, of cafes, of music, of love, and of death."Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars"This...
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L'Île aux trente cercueils
About midway in the short vista which my dreamy vision took in, one small circular island, profusely verdured, reposed upon the bosom of the stream. So blended bank and shadow there, that each seemed...
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The Third Bullet
"Sometimes, I just want to put this gun right against her head, and ever so gently, pull the trigger.""Death on the Nile" (1978 film) Huh, it's been over 13 years since I first heard about this book,...
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