Locked Room International, 2013. Book Format: Kindle Edition. File Size: 688 KB. Print Length: 144 pages. ASIN: B00HET2Y5Y. ISBN: N/A. The Night of the Wolf is a collection of short stories translated from the French by Robert Adey and John Pugmire, not to be confused with the short story of the same name. It was first published in French in 2000 by Edition du Masque – Hachette Livre as La Nuit du Loup and the first English language edition was published by Wildside Press in 2006. The English edition differs from the original French edition since one of the original short stories, “Un rendez-v ..read more

« Le Témoignage de l’enfant de chœur » est une nouvelle policière de Georges Simenon écrite à Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson (Québec), Canada. L’histoire est datée du 28 avril 1946 et fut publiée en 1947 aux Presses de la Cité dans un recueil de quatre nouvelles sous le titre générique de Maigret et l’inspecteur malchanceux. Résumé : Le commissaire Maigret est détaché pour environ six mois dans une ville de province — jamais dénommée — afin de réorganiser la Brigade mobile. Un gamin de douze ans, Justin, raconte à la police qu’il a vu un meurtre à la hauteur du numéro 61 de la rue Sainte-Cath ..read more

“L’Homme dans la rue” est une nouvelle de Georges Simenon, publiée en 1940. L’histoire a été écrite à Nieul-sur-Mer en 1939. Elle connaît une édition pré-originale dans l’hebdomadaire Sept Jours, numéros 11 et 12 des 15 et 22 décembre 1940, sous le titre “Le Prisonnier de la rue”. Elle fut ensuite reprise sous son titre actuel en 1950 dans le volume Maigret et les petits cochons sans queue. .Ce volume comprenait 9 nouvelles, dont seulement deux [“L’homme dans la rue dans la rue” et “Vente à la bougie”] étaint des Maigret. Il s’agit en fait d’un recucollection assez disparate, puisque les histo ..read more

Editions Gallimard, 2012. Book Format: Kindle Edition. File Size: 1167 KB. Print Length: 97 pages ASIN: B008O6AK4S. ISBN: 978-2070408504 Le Petit Prince was published in the United States on April 6, 1943 by Reynal & Hitchcock in French and English under the title Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince). But Saint-Exupéry will not know the fate of his work. On April 13, 1943 he left the United States to join the Free French Forces in Algeria and fight with the Allies in a squadron based in the Mediterranean. Then aged 44, he flew his last mission to collect data on German troop movements in th ..read more

Arsene Lupin Gentleman Thief (originally published in French as Arsène Lupin Gentleman : Cambrioleur in 1907) is a collection of nine detective stories written by Maurice Leblanc, including “L’arrestation d’Arsène Lupin” (in English: “The Arrest of Arsène Lupin”), his first appearance. “L’arrestation d’Arsène Lupin” was originally published in July 1905 in the newspaper Je sais tout. Following the success of this publication, his editor encouraged Maurice Leblanc to write a sequel. However, as Maurice Leblanc was debating how to continue the adventures of a hero who had just been arrested, it ..read more

Cecil John Charles Street OBE MC (3 May 1884 – 8 December 1964), better known as John Street, was a major in the British Army and a prolific writer of detective novels written under several pseudonyms including John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye. Under his John Rhode pen name wrote a series of 72 books featuring the mathematics professor Dr Lancelot Priestley published between 1925 and 1961. Having enjoyed the ones I read I’m looking forward to read the following ones in the series: Dr Priestley Investigates (1930) aka Pinehurst The Motor Rally Mystery (1933) aka Dr Priestley Lays a Trap ..read more

American Mystery Classics, 2022. Book Format: Kindle Edition. File Size: 933 KB. Print Length: 241 pages. ASIN: B09V46HZHP. eISBN: 978-1-61316-358-0. With an Introduction by Otto Penzler. First hardcover edition by William Morrow New York, 1939 / Other editions: Hardcover. Triangle Books, 1942 / Mass Market Paperback. Pocket Books, 1943 / Paperback. Pocket Books, 1952 / Mass Market Paperback. Pocket Books, 1963 / APA Lam to Slaughter, Paperback, Corgi UK, 1966 / Paperback.  William Morrow & Co, 1984 / Paperback. master mind books, 2012 / Paperback and Kindle edition, The Murder Room ..read more

This entry was intended as a private note but I thought it might be of some interest to readers of this blog From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia Cool and Lam is a fictional American private detective firm that is the centre of a series of thirty detective novels written by Erle Stanley Gardner (creator of “Perry Mason”) using the pen name of A. A. Fair. Bertha Cool – In the first book about her, The Bigger They Come (1939; British: Lam to the Slaughter), Bertha Cool opened her detective agency after the death of Henry, her husband, in 1936. She is described in various terms as overweight, a ..read more

The Murder Room, 2013. Book Format: Kindle Edition. File Size: 689 KB. Print Length: 196 pages. ASIN: B00EVRJ0QS. ISBN-13: 9781471907036.  First published January 1 1957 by Collins Crime Club in London. Synopsis: When Meg Jeacock let out the furnished cottage next to her house she did not care that her new tenant had certain rather sinister characteristics – he’d paid three months’ rent in advance. But Meg’s husband Marcus sensed he was a crook. And when the stranger shows an inexplicable interest in Shandon Priory, the big house nearby, whose elderly owner has recently died, it becomes c ..read more

Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2015. Book Formats: Kindle Edition. File size: 857 KB. Number of pages: 299. ASIN: B015RR31HE. ISBN: 9786071631619. Foreword by Martín Solares. Description: Antología policíaca unfolds between enigmas, murders and characters whose habits match the exact profiles of a suspect. With approaches to the English school represented by Chesterton and Agatha Christie, Rafael Bernal’s detective fiction is full of suspense, irony and intelligent humour that, together, provide a constant rhythm. This book brings together the best of the Mexican writer’s detective work: “El extr ..read more