A fabulous review of The Man Who Loved Clouds
http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-man-who-loved-clouds-1999-by-paul.html
From one of the most thoughtful and carefully crafted blogs around
Gaston Boca’s The Seventh Guest now available
Gaston Boca’s brilliant The Seventh Guest is now available in paperback and ebook formats, although the format for the former is slightly different from previous titles (and will continue to be henceforth).
No photograph of Gaston Boca could be found, so I made one up. See if you can guess who it is.
The Seventh Guest (box review)
Hands up all those who spotted The Seventh Guest on the bookshelf? Here’s PW’s review. The official date is January, but I’m shooting for early December. Gaston Boca was an early pioneer of French impossible crime, a contemporary of Noel Vindry, with a lighter style.
The 8 Mansion Murders in PW Top Mysteries 2018
Takemaru Abiko’s The 8 Mansion Murders becomes the 4th LRI Mystery to make Publishers Weekly’s annual Best Mystery list:
https://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2018/mystery
Previous winners: The Crimson Fog in 2013; The Decagon House Murders in 2015; The Vampire Tree in 2016.
I think I’ll treat myself to a sip of that 1904 early-landed brandy tonight.
Mystery Ahoy Anniversary report features 2 LRI titles in top 5
If you haven’t read the Mystery Ahoy! blog you’re missing out on some astute commentary as well as a very artistically designed website. Of course, I may be biased….
Challenge to Alert Readers
Why would I post this?
Two More Great Reviews for Paul Halter’s The Man Who Loved Clouds
The plaudits keep coming in, from Mysteries Ahoy! and The Greatest Game:
L’Homme qui aimait les nuages / The Man Who Loved Clouds (Paul Halter)
The Man Who Loved Clouds by Paul Halter
The Madman’s Room—Paroxysms of Delight
The Greatest Game blog gives Paul Halters classic five stars and claims it is guaranteed to send detective fiction fans into paroxysms of delight.
Who am I to disagree?
The Man Who Loved Clouds- Bizarre and Wonderful
The Puzzle Doctor gives a big thumbs-up in a review with a novel twist: an intermission, during which he tries to solve the mystery before his readers own eyes. The verdict: “Damn clever. Really, really clever.” Thanks, Steve!
Paul Halter’s The Man Who Loved Clouds now available
Paul Halter’s brilliant and creepy Dr Twist novel (PW’s words, not mine: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-721081-21-9) is now available in trade paperback and ebook.