Mysteries Ahoy!

Locked Room International is a small press that has done a fantastic job of producing English translations of locked room and impossible crime mysteries from around the world.

My first experience reading a LRI publication predates this blog – that was the fantastic The Decagon House Murders which I would heartily recommend. I would recommend many of the titles below but my current favorites would be Paul Halter’s The Seventh Hypothesis or The Invisible Circle and Takemaru Abiko’s The 8 Mansion Murders, all of which I loved.

Publications are listed in order in which I reviewed them with the oldest review first.

The Moai Island Puzzle Alice Arisugawa	Death Invites You Paul Halter	Hard Cheese Ulf Durling
The Ginza Ghost Keikichi Osaka	The Madman’s Room Paul Halter	The Demon of Dartmoor Paul Halter
The Phantom Passage Paul Halter	Come to Paddington Fair Derek Smith	The 8 Mansion Murders Takemaru Abiko
Death in the House of Rain Szu-Yen Lin	The Seventh Hypothesis Paul Halter	The Double Alibi Noël Vindry
The Man Who Loved Clouds Paul Halter	The Invisible Circle Paul Halter	The Tiger’s Head Paul Halter
Death out of Nowhere Alexis Gensoul & Charles Grenier	The Lord of Misrule Paul Halter	Lending the Key to the Locked Room Tokuya Higashigawa
The Red Locked Room Tetsuya Ayukawa	The Forbidden House Michel Herbert and Eugène Wyl	The Howling Beast Noël Vindry
Whistle Up the Devil Derek Smith