On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of LRI’s founding, I am pleased to announce the release of Marcel Lanteaume’s brilliant and tautly-plotted serial killer/impossible crime Golden Age classic The Thirteenth Bullet.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/ASINB08HB9VHTV
This is LRI’s thirtieth novel since its tentative and hesitant founding, following a WSJ article on the (then) new technology of print-on-demand. LRI has also published five collections, one anthology and two reference books.
Starting with the books of the current maestro, Paul Halter, we first branched out into French Golden Age classics, such as the Lanteaume, then into the audacious contemporary Japanese version of Golden Age: honkaku. Throw in a couple of almost-impossible-to-find English-language classics and it’s hard to find a more varied portfolio.
I have been surprised and delighted by the many plaudits the books have received from many quarters, which are posted alongside each title. And I am indebted to many friends and contributors (whom I’m too cowardly to mention by name, for fear of leaving someone out) without whom the manuscripts would never have seen the light of day and the web-site never have been created.
There is still one arrow left in LRI’s quiver for 2020–another of those audacious honkakus.
And I hope to keep going until I reach fifty (books, that is, not years).
John P.
