The Invisible Event
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The Invisible Event is my attempt at compiling all that i have to say about Crime Fiction books and authors. Hi, I'm Jim Noy and I love to read classic crime fiction. I'll usually try most things from the Agatha Christie era and will commit to definitely reading something if it features an impossible crime.
The Invisible Event
3d ago
Another case for Fatty, Bets, Daisy, Larry, and Pip, albeit one that rings a few minor changes… The established pattern of the Five Find-Outers mysteries is that we start with one or other of the four siblings either lamenting an absence of adventure or eagerly awaiting Fatty’s return so that he might bring some mystery ..read more
The Invisible Event
1w ago
Though Jay Otto is “less than three feet high…his proportions were almost exactly the same as those of a full-sized man; his head was not too large for his body; his arms and legs were proportionately the right length”. The man is also a gifted mime, proving quite the hit at the opening night of ..read more
The Invisible Event
1w ago
I really rather enjoyed Faith Martin’s impossible crime novel The Castle Mystery (2019) when I read it back in 2019, so stumbling over a new hardback by her at my local library — and learning that Murder by Candlelight (2024) features a murdered body discovered in a sealed room — was a very pleasant surprise ..read more
The Invisible Event
3w ago
It is perhaps fitting — though, I assure you, completely accidental — that a locked room murder in a novel by John Dickson Carr, doyen of the apparently undoable nevertheless rationally explained, is the focus of the 500th post on this blog to be tagged “impossible crimes“. Sure, upon realising this I could have chosen ..read more
The Invisible Event
1M ago
I was saddened to learn of the recent death of John Pugmire who, for the best part of the last 20 years, has been instrumental in bringing the works of foreign authors to Anglophone fans, latterly through his Locked Room International imprint. I had the pleasure of meeting John to discuss impossible crimes several times ..read more
The Invisible Event
2M ago
Look, I can’t swear to it, but I have a suspicion that Cats Prowl at Night (1943), the eighth published book in Erle Stanley Gardner’s series featuring Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, written under this A.A. Fair nom de plume, just might be the first title of his I ever read. Reading it now, some ..read more
The Invisible Event
2M ago
Merrilee Moore, the latest star to bewitch millions from the silver screen, is rumoured to be making a movie about Helen of Troy in Greece after years of being kept on a decidedly ungenerous contract by greedy studio heads. Suffice to say, certain people in the industry feel slightly put out at this turn of events ..read more
The Invisible Event
3M ago
Merrilee Moore, the latest star to bewitch millions from the silver screen, is rumoured to be making a movie about Helen of Troy in Greece after years of being kept on a decidedly ungenerous contract by greedy studio heads. Suffice to say, certain people in the industry feel slightly put out at this turn of events ..read more
The Invisible Event
3M ago
Rendered a widow and penniless at a young age — well, she is a Freeman Wills Crofts protagonist — Betty Stanton is fortunate in finding a job as housekeeper and general organiser of newly-minted baronet Sir Geoffrey Buller. Betty is delighted both with the setting of Forde Manor and the enviable collection of art on display ..read more
The Invisible Event
3M ago
Having previously looked at the first ten stories in this collection of impossible crime tales selected by Jack Adrian and Robert Adey, let’s crack on with the final eleven stories, shall we? I did not particularly enjoy ‘The Ghost in the Gallery’ (1949) by Joseph Commings when I first read it in the Banner Deadlines ..read more