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The review is specifically about The House That Kills, but it’s the unbridled enthusiasm for Vindry that’s so striking

The House That Kills – Noel Vindry (1932)

This one is from A Crime is Afoot: “I found the solution extremely elegant and clever…..Brilliant and highly recommended”

My Book Notes: The Forbidden House (1932) by Michel Herbert & Eugene Wyl (translated by John Pugmire)

Thank you Jose Escribano and Jim Noy

Dear Readers,
To celebrate the New Year,I am announcing the following price reductions:

Death Out of Nowhere and The Gold Watch from $19.99 to $15.99 (tpb) and from $9.99 to $7.99 (ebk)
Locked Room Murders Supplement from $24.99 to $19.99 (tpb). Not available as ebook.

I wish you a Happy and Prosperous 2022, however unlikely that may sound right now.

John

“Fans of John Dickson Carr will be in Heaven”
Publisher’s weekly starred review of Noel Vindry’s last impossible crime novel:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/ASINB09M83SG8L

All in all, a fair and balanced review from Mysteries Ahoy: “has enough points of interest that it would be a very solid second read.”

Through the Walls by Noël Vindry, translated by John Pugmire

Self-explanatory

A Travers les murailles, Noel Vindry’s last novel to feature M. Allou, the master resolver of locked room mysteries, is now available.

Rated almost as highly as The Howling Beast by 1000 Chambres Closes, it features several impossible crimes in and outside an eerie manor, whose inhabitants are convinced that the aggressors are capable of walking through walls.

The excellent Australian Death of the Reader podcast recently featured Locked Room International. My friends Roland Lacourbe and Soji Shimada are quoted extensively.

The sound is not always the greatest (probably due to me) but it’s fairly intelligible.

Another great review, this one from the highly selective Ah! Sweet Mystery blog:
“… great fun, and a clever mystery… Locked Room International’s latest triumph… ” I blush.

https://ahsweetmysteryblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/10/

The Moonlight Detective cannot contain his enthusiasm:
“… purely as a traditional, plot-driven mystery novel, ‘Death Among the Undead’ can stand with the best of its kind, past and present
… close to perfect as a hybrid-mystery novel… My best and favorite read of 2021!”

http://moonlight-detective.blogspot.com/2021/09/death-among-undead-2017-by-masahiro.html

On a more prosaic note, there will be a short unavailability of the tpd while I publish a small update.

John P.