Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International, $19.99 trade paper (194p) ISBN 978-1-698112-08-4
Halter (The Gold Watch) reinforces his position as the master of impossible crime fiction with this standout collection of 10 short stories. Several entries have a mythological theme, including the title tale, which features Halter’s Oscar Wilde–like
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International (www.lockedroominternational.com), $19.99 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-491244-23-4
First published in France in 1988, this brilliant fair-play mystery from impossible crime master Halter (The Seventh Hypothesis) showcases his ingenuity at misdirecting the reader and his unique approach to the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. In...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International
(www.lockedroominternational.com), $19.99 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-497336-83-4
Set in 1936, this fiendishly clever standalone from French author Halter (The Crimson Fog) offers a neat variation on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians. Londoner Madge Pearson, accompanied by boyfriend Bill Page, travels to Cornwall to attend “a...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International
(www.lockedroominternational.com), $19.99 trade paper (180p) ISBN 978-1-502301-81-9
Halter (The Tiger’s Head) neatly intertwines three distinct plot lines in this absorbing entry in his long-running crime series featuring Dr. Alan Twist. In 1959 Essex, England, Twist and Chief Insp. Archibald Hurst of Scotland Yard find the...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International (lockedroominternational.com), $19.99 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-1-511939-92-8
How can an entire street disappear? That seeming impossibility is but one of the challenges Halter sets for Owen Burns in the Oscar Wilde–like sleuth’s ingenious third whodunit translated into English (after 2011’s The Seven Wonders of Crime). One...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International (lockedroominternational.com), $19.99 trade paper (154p) ISBN 978-1-518668-75-3
An incredibly bizarre, impossible crime distinguishes Halter’s whodunit set in 1930s London featuring brilliant criminologist Dr. Alan Twist and Scotland Yard’s Insp. Archibald Hurst. Hurst’s colleague, Det. Sgt. Simon Cunningham, receives an...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International, $19.99 trade paper (220p) ISBN 978-1-539139-35-5
First published in French in 1996, this exquisite entry in Halter’s long-running Dr. Alan Twist series (Death Invites You, etc.) couples creepy atmospherics in an unlikely setting—an outwardly placid English village—with a sympathetic but troubled...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International, $19.99 trade paper (178p) ISBN 978-1-545568-12-5
Halter’s eighth novel featuring criminologist Alan Twist to be translated into English (after The Vampire Tree) brilliantly piles baffling puzzle upon baffling puzzle. In the 19th century, Harvey Thorne isolates himself in his room in the family...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International, $19.99 trade paper (180p) ISBN 978-1-721081-21-9
Set in England in 1936, Halter’s brilliant ninth Alan Twist mystery to be translated into English (after 2017’s The Madman’s Room) presents the criminologist with one of his most perplexing cases. Journalist Mark Reeder, in pursuit of his love of...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International, $19.99 trade paper (178p) ISBN 978-1-798567-28-9
Whodunit devotees will relish French author Halter’s tantalizing fourth mystery featuring amateur detective Owen Burns to be translated into English (after 2015’s The Phantom Passage). In a prologue set in 1901 London, a woman is apparently killed...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International, $19.99 trade paper (152p) ASIN B095GS1CBW
In 1933, entomologist Frederick Foster, the central character in this superb locked-room mystery from Halter (The Man Who Loved Clouds), traveled to Brazil to study spiders, but he never returned; his body reportedly turned up on a riverbank, the...
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Paul Halter, trans. from the French by John Pugmire. Locked Room International, $19.99 trade paper (248p) ASIN B09TZ4WY9M
Halter’s ingenious 19th book to be translated into English (after 2021’s Penelope’s Web) pays homage to John Dickson Carr’s classic The Three Coffins. In 1901, brilliant amateur sleuth Owen Burns is consulted by Scotland Yard’s Inspector Wedekind...
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Paul Halter, Author, Robert Adey, Translator, John Pugmire, Translator , trans. from the French by Robert Adey and John Pugmire. Wildside $12.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8095-6259-6
Most of the 10 outstanding stories in this collection from French author Halter, the first English-language edition of his work, center on an impossible crime, a still potent subgenre that was once a fixture of last century’s golden age of...
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