Welcome to locked room international.
Locked room international.
It is ideally a mystery which follows golden age rules about providing fair clues to the reader and also poses the question.
How was it done.
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.
Publisher locked room international has been translating foreign language impossible crime novels into english.
Included in this superb collection by tetsuya ayukawa recognized as the doyen of the honkaku mystery are four impossible crime stories and three unbreakable alibi tales.
Ruth ware s the woman in cabin 10 is a locked room mystery set on the high seas covering an assignment for her boss reporter lo blacklock joins fellow travel reporters photographers celebrities and investors on the maiden voyage of the aurora a luxury cruise liner.
What is a locked room mystery.
A locked room is a special case of the more general impossible crime in which one or more victims are discovered dead in.
The japanese term shin honkaku refers to the logic mystery genre similar to what we think of as a puzzle plot mystery.
My first experience reading a lri publication predates this blog that was the fantastic the decagon house murders which i would heartily recommend.
The final story the red locked room can lay claim to be one of the finest ever written in the genre.
Many are by japanese authors because of the genre s popularity in japan.
John pugmire has now through locked room international published 17 previously non anglophone books from the roland lacourbe curated locked room library list all but one being his own translations.