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Murder in Retrospect
"Who does not remember that, at such a time as this, the eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of its sorrow, and sees in innumerable far off places, the wo which is close at hand?""The...
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Fright House of a Lighthouse
"Jan 1 — 1796. This day — my first on the light-house — I make this entry in my Diary, as agreed on with De Grät. As regularly as I can keep the journal, I will — but there is no telling what may...
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Death in a Ghost Town
"Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"Two Conan-related reviews in a week! Three actually!Volume 107 of Aoyama Goushou's extremely long-running Detective Conan was...
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Trapped in Paradise
"Thou shalt not kill"Exodus 20:1–17 (King James Version)I think the first time I encountered the "person who always tells the truth/person who always lies" riddle was in a Super Mario Choose Your Own...
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The World's End
"We cannot conceive of a life other than this one - of a life after death. We can visualize only a continuation of what we know. We have no real belief in a God.""Death Comes as the End"It's just a...
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The Man in the Mirror
"Mirror, mirror on the wall...""Snow White"For a change not writing a review of this series months (years) after reading it...The Mirror House located in the outskirts of Kamakura belongs to Kurozawa...
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A Model Murder
"Well, I don't like it! I don't like the whole idea being associated with Wham, Pow and Zap! It just isn't me!""The Comic Book Crusader"Manga adaptations of mystery novels have a long history: in fact,...
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Much Ado About Murder
We that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. "King Lear"These re-releases by Tokuma have really cool art...Kaji Tatsuo's Lear-Ou Misshitsu ni Shisu ("King Lear Dies in a Locked Room",...
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To Wake the Dead
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin' And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive"Stayin' Alive" (Bee Gees) It would have been cool if an iron fan had been used as a murder weapon... Disclosure: I...
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