It is finally October 2025 and that means it's finally here! My English translation of  The Clock House Murders  ( Tokeikan no Satsujin ...

My translation of The Labyrinth House Murders (Yukito AYATSUJI) was released three weeks ago in the UK by Pushkin Press . I hope the people...

I probably mentioned it earlier on this blog, but today's finally the day: this is the day Pushkin Press is releasing my English transla...

Back in November, I announced Pushkin Press would be publishing my translation of AYATSUJI Yukito 's The Mill House House Murders , at t...

Okay, I know I make the same mistake every single time, but I really should start thinking more about what to write in my announcements of u...

I'd better say this right away: don't expect another announcement next Friday. This post following my recent announcement of the upc...

Better make an announcement in advance, before I am too late... Two years ago, Pushkin Press re-released The Decagon House Murders , a sligh...

Considering my other new translation released this year was Death Among the Undead , you'd almost think this was planned... One month ag...

2020 saw the release of two new Japanese mysteries translated by me, being Ayukawa's story collection The Red Locked Room and Higashi...

Doing announcements of announcements is like shooting myself in the foot, because I'm always left with nothing to say in the actual ann...

After the annual releases of The Decagon House Murders (2015), The Moai Island Puzzle (2016), The Ginza Ghost (2017) and The 8 Mansion Mu...

When The Red Locked Room was released earlier this year, I mentioned how Locked Room International didn't have a full-length Japanese ...

Five years ago, Locked Room International released The Decagon House Murders , my translation of Ayatsuji 's monumental 1987 novel Jukka...

Some readers may have been disappointed when Locked Room International didn't release a full-length Japanese mystery last year. Abiko...

So for the last two months or so, I kept telling myself, don't forget to write an announcement, it'll take no time at all, it'll...

“I will now lecture on the general mechanics and development of the situation which is known in detective fiction as the ‘hermetically seal...