- The Night of the Wolf -- by Paul Halter. Translated from the French by Robert Adey and John Pugmire. 149 pages. Copyright 2000. A collection of short stories originally published individually over a 15-year period. Fold in upper left corner of back cover. Tiny chip near the fold.
- Death in the House of Rain -- by Szu-Yen Lin..The author also translated the book from the Chinese. 172 pages. Copyright 2015. First published in Chinese in 2006. Synopsis: "The floor plan of the manor, built specially for entrepreneur Jingfu Bai, traces the Chinese character for rain. Shortly after completion, Bai and his and his wife and daughter are slaughtered...a year later Jingfu's brother has inherited the manor and decided to stay there for the summer with his daughter. She invites a number of friends and, sure enough, they begin to be slaughtered one by one in impossible circumstances." Folds in lower right corner of front cover.
- The House That Kills -- by Noel Vindry. Translated from the French by John Pugmire. 151 pages. Copyright 1932. English translation copyright 2015. Synopsis: "... Vindry's first book, featuring examining magistrate Monsieur Allou and three baffling locked room mysteries."
- Hard Cheese -- by Ulf Durling. Translated from the Swedish by Bertil Falk. 220 pages. Copyright 1971. English translation copyright 2015. Synopsis: "Gunnar Bergman, a detective sergeant in a small Swedish town, is called in to investigate the death of a resident of a shady boarding house. He makes the mistake of telling his father, Carl, all the details of the case, including the fact that the victim's room was locked from the inside. Carl, a locked room enthusiast, is a member of a small club which meets regularly to discuss locked room classics. He and his fellow members gleefully seize on the case and apply chains of Ellery Queen style logic to devise a solution which Gunnar finds so hilarious he reads out extracts to his wife in bed. Meanwhile, he himself interprets the same set of clues to arrive at a totally different solution, through shoddy police work...It is left to a cheese-loving local doctor to interpret the clues in yet another way to solve the case and confront the murderer."
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