Halter’s The Helm of Hades collection strongly recommended
After a mixed review of The Gold Watch, Classic Mystery gives a strong endorsement of Paul Halter’ second short story collection:
The Intermittent LRI Blog
Classic Mystery review of Halter’s The Gold Watch
Classic Mystery a.k.a The Puzzle Doctor has mixed feelings, but says “fans will delight in the dead body in the snow solution, which is stunning”:
A Superb Review of The Helm of Hades second Halter collection
Publishers Weekly gives an enthusiastic thumbs-up to Paul Halter’s second short story collection:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-698112084
Another great review of The Flying Boat Mystery
Another thoughtful review from the excellent blog Moonlight Detective, aka Beneath the Stains of Time:
https://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-flying-boat-mystery-1935-by-franco.html
Invitation from NY Times
I was flattered to be contacted by a subsidiary of the New York Times to contribute to a forthcoming article about an unsolved real-life locked room, the Isador Fink murder. I dutifully submitted answers to questions I was given and eagerly awaited the result, which was this rather spectacular production:
https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/facebookwatch/limetown-fink.html
Unfortunately, almost all my input had been discarded!
Here’s the original Q&A NYT article
A Paean to Paul Halter
It’s not just a (very good) review, it’s almost a hymn of praise, and, as a bonus, it lists all the other reviews for The Seventh Hypothesis
https://jiescribano.wordpress.com/
Halter’s Helm of Hades now available on Kindle…
…or, as they would say in the East End: ‘Alter’s ‘Elm of ‘Ades
The Helm of Hades: superb new Halter short story collection
A man falls from a great height, but there are no tall buildings in the vicinity… Another is stabbed to death in a locked bungalow surrounded by virgin snow… An invisible murderer walks through a room in front of witnesses… These are only three of the mysteries in this second collection of ten stories by the maestro of the impossible, Paul Halter.
Another great review of Halter’s The Gold Watch
Over at The Invisible Event, another terrific review for Paul Halter’s latest:
“achingly devious… genuine brilliance and invention…”
#575: The Gold Watch (2019) by Paul Halter [trans. John Pugmire 2019]
The Golden Age Detective Fiction Renaissance
Martin Edwards, the man most responsible, and author of the classic The Golden Age of Murder, writes:
And is kind enough to mention LRI’s contribution