The Intermittent LRI Blog

After a mixed review of The Gold Watch, Classic Mystery gives a strong endorsement of Paul Halter’ second short story collection:

The Helm Of Hades (2019) by Paul Halter

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”:

The Gold Watch (2019) by Paul Halter

Publishers Weekly gives an enthusiastic thumbs-up to Paul Halter’s second short story collection:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-698112084

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

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

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/

…or, as they would say in the East End:  ‘Alter’s ‘Elm of ‘Ades

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.

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]

Martin Edwards, the man most responsible, and author of the classic The Golden Age of Murder, writes:

The Golden Age Detective Fiction Renaissance

And is kind enough to mention LRI’s contribution