#1256: “There’s more here than meets the eye.” – Banner Deadlines: The Impossible Files of Senator Brooks U. Banner [ss] (2004) by Joseph Commings [ed. Robert Adey]

February 15, 2025February 9, 2025 / JJ / 8 Comments

People will tell you that I don’t like the Brooks U. Banner stories of Joseph Commings. And, well, they wouldn’t be entirely wrong.

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#1162: “Front door locked on the inside, Johnny…” – The Art of the Impossible, a.k.a. Murder Impossible [ss] (1990) ed. Jack Adrian and Robert Adey, Part 2 of 2

January 20, 2024January 16, 2024 / JJ / 11 Comments

Having previously looked at the first ten stories in this collection of impossible crime tales selected by Jack Adrian and Robert Adey, let’s crack on with the final eleven stories, shall we?

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#1141: “He must have known he was playing a dangerous game.” – Bodies from the Library 6 [ss] (2023) ed. Tony Medawar

November 18, 2023February 15, 2025 / JJ / 2 Comments

Bodies from the Library 6 (2023) represents another delightful foray into the neglected and forgotten stories from many of the luminaries of the Golden Age, as editor Tony Medawar puts his enviable genre awareness to wonderful use bringing yet more gems to public attention.

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In GAD We Trust – Episode 18: The ‘No Footprints’ Impossible Crime [w’ Tom Mead]

February 13, 2021April 18, 2023 / JJ / 9 Comments

For a blog set up with the implicit aim to explore the impossible crime in fiction, it has to be said that impossibilities have been rather thin on the ground at The Invisible Event of late. Here, then, is a podcast episode committed to the impossible crime (or one-tenth of it, at least) with author Tom Mead.

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