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Made up things are even better. The point is to enjoy the pleasure in the world of reasoning."
— Seicho Matsumoto [1909-92]
Exotic Climes
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"Murder In Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime & Detection" [1987]
Edited by John L. Apostolou & Martin H. Greenberg
Dembner Books hardcover [6/87] out of print/used
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Douglas Adams [1952-2001]
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Nothing is quite as exotic as the writings of Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galazy"
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"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" [1987]
Dirk's search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, and a devastating secret that jeopardizes the survival of the human race! Pocket mass pb [6/91] for $7.99 Pocket mass pb [5/88] out of print/many, many used S&S 8¼x5½ hardcover [5/87] out of print/many, many used book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Long Dark Tea-Time of The Soul" [1988]
Gumshoe Dirk Gently's latest client is found in a locked room, decapitated and with his head set atop a spinning record turntable. The police decide the death was a suicide, and so Dirk must somehow solve the case, which soon involves a lawyer and an advertiser who own the soul of the Norse god Odin, potatoes, exploding airport check-in counters, and a sinister nursing home. Pocket mass pb [2/91] for $7.99 Pocket mass pb [1/90] out of print/many, many used Tor Books mass pb [10/89] out of print/many used S&S 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/88] out of print/many, many used William Heinemann Ltd. 9x6 hardcover [10/88] out of print/many used S&S 8½x6 hardcover [10/88] out of print/many used S&S hardcover [10/88] out of print/used S&S Book Club Edition hardcover [10/88] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
"Two Complete Novels" [1994] by Douglas Adams
omnibus edition of both Dirk Gently novels
Random House Book Club 9x6¼ hardcover [12/94] out of print/many used
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"The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking The Galaxy One Last Time" [2002] by Douglas Adams, Edited by Peter Guzzardi includes 10 chapters of the unfinished third Dirk Gently novel (saved from Douglas Adams's Mac PC); essays and letters, a Q&A piece & two short stories Del Rey mass pb [4/2005] for $7.99 Harmony 8¼x5¾ pb [5/2002] for $16.32 book entry at Wikipedia |
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"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" B.B.C. Radio dramatization
six half-hour episodes adapted by Mike Stott; cast features Harry Enfield, Billy Boyd, Olivia Coleman, Jim Carter, Andrew Sachs, Felicity Montagu, Robert Duncan, Toby Longworth & Michael Fenton Stevens B.B.C. Radio's official programme page BBC Audiobooks America audio CD [8/2008] on 3 disks for $15.56 BBC Audiobooks America audio CD [8/2008] out of print/used |
"The Long Dark Tea-Time of The Soul" B.B.C. Radio dramatization
BBC Audiobooks America audio CD [9/2009] for $19.77
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Jiro Akagawa
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A.C. Baantjer
+ Amsterdam Insp. Jurrian DeKok series
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Benjamin Black {real name John Banville)
+ Dublin, Ireland coroner Quirke series
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Cara Black of San Francisco
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Aimée Leduc of Paris, France series
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Giles Blunt
+ Northern Ontario, Canada detectives Cardinal & Delorme series
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Tom Bradby
+ mysteries set in 1926 Shanghai, 1917 Russia, 1942 Cairo
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John Burdett
+ Royal Thai Police Det. Sonchai Jitpleecheep series
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Andrea Camilleri
+ Commissario Montalbano in Sicily series
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Camilleri Fan Club [est. 1997]: in Italian or in English
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Gianrico Carofiglio
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Linda Castillo
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 | "Sworn To Silence" [2009] by Linda Castillo Romance author Castillo has written a mystery novel that takes place in the Amish country of Midwestern America. (The Amish are a Christian sect of America & Canada whose farming culture remains largely as it was 200 years ago: no electricity, no automobiles or tractors, German-Swiss dialect.) Kate Burkholder broke away from the Amish years ago and became a big-city cop; now she is back in bucolic Painters Mill, Ohio as the new chief of police. Sizteen years prior, four serial killings occured that were never solved; now the killer appears to have started up again. Minotaur Books mass pb [5/2010] out of print/ many, many used Minotaur Books 8¼x5½ pb [3/2011] for $10.19 St. Martin/Minotaur 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2009] for $16.47 Macmillan UNABR audio CD [6/2009] for $26.37 |
"Sworn To Silence" [Lifetime TV 2012?] 
Announced 12/2011: Poppy Montgomery & Barbara Lieberman will executive produce; actress Neve Campbell will
co-produce & star; Stephen Gyllenhaal will direct from a script by Mark Malone • not yet listed on IMDb
"Pray For Silence" [St. Martin's Minotaur]
"Breaking Silence" [St. Martin's Minotaur 6/2011]
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Vikram Chandra
+ Insp. Sartaj Singh of Bombay, India series
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 | "Sacred Games" [2007] HarperCollins 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2007] for $16.77 Insp. Singh also appeared in a story in |
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Henry Chang
+ N.Y.P.D. Det. Jack Yu in New York's Chinatown series
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Xiaoqing Cheng
+ Huo Sang & Bao Lang in 1920s & 1930s Shanghai
Xiaoqing Cheng [1893-1976] is considered the Grand Master of XXth-century Chinese detective fiction; before World War I,
he translated Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of Sherlock Holmes into classical Chinese and then into vernacular Chinese.
Cheng's two characters Huo Sang & Bao Lang lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road in 1920s & 1930s Shanghai,
and the tales were a combination of Holmesian deduction and the conventions of traditional (often sensationalist) Chinese fiction.
 | "Sherlock In Shanghai: Stories of Crime and Detection" [2006] by Xiaoqing Cheng, Translated by Timothy C. Wong contains eight translated stories: "A Summer Night's Tragedy"; "At The Ball"; "Cat's-Eye" featuring master thief The South-China Swallow; "The Examination Paper"; "The Odd Tenant"; "On The Huangpu"; "The Other Photograph"; and "The Shoe" Univ of Hawai'i Press 8¼x5½ pb [11/2006] for $26.00 Univ of Hawai'i Press 8½x5½ hardcover [11/2006] for $38.13 publisher's book page |
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James Church: browse books • no entry at Wikipedia
Inspector O of North Korea series
 | "A Corpse In The Koryo" [#1=2006] Inspector O of North Korea's Ministry of State Security is assigned to the case of an unidentified Westerner found dead in a hotel room. Minotaur 8x5½ pb [9/2007] for $11.21 St. Martin/Minotaur 8½x6 hardcover [10/2006] out of print/used |
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"Hidden Moon: An Inspector O Novel" [2007]
Bank robbery is rare in North Korea, so when men wearing silk stockings (also rare) on their faces rob the Gold Star Bank in broad daylight, the matter is assigned to Inspector O, due to his expertise with offbeat cases. Minotaur 8¼x5½ pb [10/2008] for $11.16 St. Martin/Minotaur 8¼x5½ hardcover [10/2007] for $18.68 |
 | "Bamboo and Blood: An Inspector O Novel" [#3=2008]
Inspector O is assigned to watch a foreigner, who turns out to be working for Israeli intelligence, and then reassigned to investigate the death of a diplomat's wife in Pakistan – but in the dysfunctional, paranoid society of modern North Korea, Insp. O is allowed only to gather data and not to solve the crime. St. Martin's Griffin pb [DUE Feb 2010] for $11.19 
St. Martin/Minotaur 8¼x6 hardcover [11/2008] for $16.29 |
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Michael Dibdin [1947-2007]
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Aurelio Zen of modern Venice, Italy series
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"Ratking" [1988]
"Vendetta" [1990]
"Cabal" [1992]
"Dead Lagoon" [1994]
"Cosi Fan Tutti" [1996]
"A Long Finish" [1998]
"Blood Rain" [1999]
"And Then You Die" [2002]
"Medusa" [2003]
"Back To Bologna" [2005]
"End Games" [2007]
"Zen" TV series [RTI/BBC Jan 2011]
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 | "Zen" DVD Box Set [2011]
contains 3 feature-length TV movies: "Ratking", "Vendetta" & "Cabal"; starring Rufus Sewell & Caterina Murino BBC/Warner widescreen colorBlu-ray [DUE Aug 2011] 2 disks for $30.99 BBC/Warner widescreen color DVD [DUE Aug 2011] 2 disks for $25.99
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Åke Edwardson
+ Swedish Insp. Erik Winter series
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Kerstin Ekman page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
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Kerstin Ekman
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Kerstin Ekman page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
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Kjell Eriksson
+ Swedish detectives Haver & Lindell series
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Kjell Eriksson page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
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John Farrow + Montreal detective Emile Cinq-Mars series
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Karin Fossum + Norwegian Insp. Konrad Sejer series
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Karin Fossum page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
Dutch-language Karin Fossum fansite
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Nicolas Freeling [1927-2003]
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Insp. Van der Valk of Amsterdam series:
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Henri Castang of Brussels, Belgium series:
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David Fulmer
+ Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr series
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Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
+ Insp. Espinosa of Rio de Janiero series
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P.L. Gaus
+ Amish-Country Mysteries in Ohio series
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"Blood of The Prodigal" [#1=1999]
"Broken English" [#2=2000]
"Clouds Without Rain" [#3=2001]
"Cast A Blue Shadow" [#4=2003]
"A Prayer For The Night" [#5=2003]
"Separate From The World" [#6=2008]
"Harmless As Doves" [#7=6/2011]
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Friedrich Glauser [1896-1938] + Det. Sgt. Studer series
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KP's German-language Friedrich Glauser fansite
Goethe Institut's Friedrich Glauser page
German-language Friedrich Glauser fansite
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Batya Gur [1947-2005]
+ Jerusalem Police Supt. Michael Ohayon series
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Sue Henry of Anchorage, Alaska
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Jessie Arnold of Alaska series
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Maxine McNab and and her dog Stretch series
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David Hewson
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detective Nic Costa of Rome, Italy series
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Stan Jones
+ Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active series
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Arnaldur Indriðason + Icelandic Insp. Erlendur series
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Arnaldur Indriðason page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
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Claude Izner + Victor Legris of 1890s Paris series
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H.R.F. Keating
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Insp. Ghote of Bombay, India:
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 | "The Perfect Murder" [Merchant-Ivory July 1988]
Someone attempts to kill an employee in the home of an upper-caste family, and Insp. Ghote is under pressure to solve this and several other cases, as well as dealing with a visiting professor. Co-written & directed by Zafar Hai, co-written by H.R.F. Keating, from his book; starring Naseeruddin Shah {as Ghote}, Stellan Skarsgård, Amjad Khan, Madhur Jaffrey, Annu Kapoor, Archana Puran Singh, Dalip Tahil, Dinshaw Daji, Johnny Walker, Mohan Agashe, Rajesh Vivek, Ratna Pathak & Salim Ghouse Merchant-Ivory widescreen color DVD +[1/2005] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
 | based on the H.R.F. Keating novel [1964] Academy Chicago Publrs 8x5 pb [10/97] for $9.31 |
Lars Kepler
pseudonym of writing team Alexander Ahndoril & wife Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril of Sweden
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 | "The Hypnotist: A Novel (Hypnotisören)" [2011 bestseller] by Lars Kepler, Translated by Ann Long A gruesome triple homicide leaves one child barely surviving; Insp. Linna asks a hypnotism expert to try to obtain suppressed information from the boy. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2011] for $14.24 |
"The Hypnotist" [Sweden Oct 2012]
Announced 11/2011: Lasse Hallstrom will adapt & direct; Finnish actor Tobias Zilliacus will portray detective inspector
Joona Linna; Mikael Persbrandt stars in the title role of Dr. Erik Maria Bark; Hallstrom's wife Lena Olin will portray the wife,
Simone. {Zilliacus has signed on for a planned eight-feature franchise from producers Svensk Filmindustri and Sonet Film.}
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Stieg Larsson [1954-2004]
+ posthumous Millennium Trilogy novels
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Donna Leon
+ Commissario Guido Brunetti of Venice, Italy series
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Carlo Lucarelli
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Commissario De Luca series
RA's Italian-language Commissario De Luca fansite
Grazia Negro of Bologna series
Grazia Negro 'official?' website {parked 2/2007}
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Swedish Police Insp. Wallander Mystery Series
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Paul Mann: browse books
half-caste George Sansi, detective of the N.C.B. in Bombay series
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Petros Markaris + Insp. Haritos of Athens Homicide series
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Liza Marklund + reporter Annika Bengtzon series
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John P. Marquand [1893-1960]
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Mr. Moto series: series books • Wikipedia
 | "The Mr. Moto Collection - Volume 1" Starring Peter Lorre
Fox color DVD box set [8/2006] 4 disks for $44.99 includes "Thank You, Mr. Moto" [1937], "Think Fast, Mr. Moto" [1937], "Mr. Moto Takes A Chance" [1938], and "Mysterious Mr. Moto" [1938] "The Mr. Moto Collection - Volume 2" Starring Peter Lorre Fox color DVD set [2/2007] 4 disks for $44.49 includes "Mr. Moto's Gamble" [1938], "Mr. Moto On Danger Island" [1939], "Mr. Moto Takes A Vacation" [1939], and "Mr. Moto's Last Warning" [1939] |
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Sujata Massey + Rei Shimura in Japan & U.S.A. series
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Seicho Matsumoto [1909-92] + Insp. Imanishi of Tokyo series
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Seicho Matsumoto memorial museum
 | "Zero Focus" aka 'Zero no Shoten' [1961] A week after marriage, the groom leaves on a business trip but does not return; his employer tells the bride that he already returned home; she and her brother set out to find him. Directed by Yoshitaro Nomura; based on a novel by Seicho Matsumoto; starring Yoshiko Kuga, Ineko Arima, Hizuru Takachiho, Koji Nambara, Kô Nishimura, Yoshi Kato & Sadako Sawamura Homevision widescreen b&w DVD [9/2004] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb |
 | "The Castle of Sand" aka 'Suna no utsuwa' [Shochiku Japan Oct 1974, USA Oct 1975]
A homicide detective and his new partner investigate a body dumped in a railroad yard, which is soon identified as a policeman on vacation; considered to be one of the masterpieces of Japanese cinema. Directed by Yoshitaro Nomura; based on a best-selling novel by Seicho Matsumoto; starring Tetsuro Tamba, Kensaku Morita, Go Kato, Ken Ogata, Yôko Shimada, Karin Yamaguchi, Seiji Matsuyama & Yoshi Kato; won Kinema Junpo awards for Best Director & Best Script Panorama color DVD [6/2007] for $23.49 full credits from IMDb + 2004 Japan tv series: series credits at IMDb "Inspector Imanishi Investigates" [1961 bestseller novel] Soho Crime 7½x5 pb [11/94] for $10.01 |
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"The Demon" aka 'Kichiku' [Shochiku Japan Oct 1978, USA June 1979]
"They'd be better off with strangers" When a husband stops providing his long-time lover with enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, she leaves the children with him and his very surprised & angry wife - and disappears. Directed by Yoshitaro Nomura; script by Masato Ide, based on a story my Seicho Matsumoto; starring Ken Ogata, Shima Iwashita & Mayumi Ogawa; won Best Director & Best Actor Awards of the Japanese Academy, won Best Actor Award from Kinema Junpo Homevision widescreen color DVD [9/2004] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb |
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James McClure [1939-2006]
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+ Kramer & Zondi of South African C.I.D. series
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Patrick McGinley of Ireland
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James Melville: browse books
Tetsuo Otani of Osaka, Japan series
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Miyuki Miyabe + Tokyo police series
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Magdalen Nabb
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Maresciallo Salvatore Guarnaccia in Florence, Italy series
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Barbara Nadel
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Insp. Cetin Ikmen of Istanbul, Turkey series
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Shizuko Natsuki of Japan
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Jo Nesbø of Norway
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Harry Hole Mystery Novels
"Flaggermusmannen (The Bat Man)" [1997]
"Kakerlakkene (The Cockroaches)" [1998]
"Rødstrupe (The Redbreast)" [2000 & 2006]
"Sorgenfri (Nemesis)" [2002 & 2008]
"Marekors (The Devil's Star)" [2003 & 2005]
"Frelseren (The Redeemer)" [2005 & 2009]
"Snømannen (The Snowman)" [2007 & 2010]
Announced 11/2011: Matthew Michael Carnahan signed to adapt and
Martin Scorsese is signed to direct a movie from Nesbø's book.
"Panserhjerte (The Leopard)" [2009 & 2011]
"Gjenferd (The Phantom?)" [June 2011]
Doktor Proktor children's books
"Doktor Proktors Prompepulver (Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder)" [2007]
"Doktor Proktors Tidsbadekar (Doctor Proctor's Time Bathtub)" [2008]
"Doktor Proktor og Verdens Undergang - Kanskje" (Doctor Proctor and The Destruction of The World. Maybe.) [2010]
Stand-Alone Novels & Other Books
"Stemmer fra Balkan/Atten Dager i mai" [non-fiction 1999] with Espen Søbye
"Karusellmusikk" [short stories 2001])
"Det Hvite Hotellet (The White Hotel)" [2007]
"Hodejegerne (The Headhunters)" [2008]
The Norwegian film version of "Headhunters" opened in Oslo in August 2011, and soon became "the
most-widely exported Norwegian movie in history"; in October 2011, Summit Entertainment acquired rights
to produce an English-language adaptation partnered with Swedish producers Yellow Bird Films
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Håkan Nesser + Insp. Van Veeteren series
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Håkan Nesser page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
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Günter Ohnemus: all books •
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Iain Pears: browse books • Wikipedia
art historian Jonathan Argyll in Italy series:
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Daniel Pennac
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+ 'Malaussène Saga' comic mysteries
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Louise Penny of Canada
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Quebec, Canada
series books
award-winning "Still Life" [2005]
award-winning "A Fatal Grace" [2007]
award-winning "The Cruelest Month" [2008]
New York Times bestseller "The Murder Stone" aka "A Rule Against Murder" [2009]
award-winning "The Brutal Telling" [2009]
"Bury Your Dead" [DUE September 2010]
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Elizabeth Quinn
(pen name of Beth Quinn Barnard of Grants Pass, Oregon} • browse books
Lauren Maxwell of Anchorage, Alaska series
"Murder Most Grizzly" [#1=1993]
"A Wolf In Death's Clothing" [#2=1995]
"Lamb To The Slaughter" [#3=1996]
"Killer Whale" [#4=1997]
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Edogawa Rampo {real name Hirai Taro} [1894-1965]
"Edogawa Rampo is the Japanese Edgar Allen Poe"
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IK's Edogawa Rampo fansite {in English or in Japanese}
 | "The Mystery of Rampo" [Shochiku Japan June 1994, USA May 1995] A famous author's new book is banned by the government, and the manuscript burned; his unpub- lished fictional tale of a woman who suffocates her husband in a chest shows up in real life, and he becomes obsessed with the case; filmed in a very expressionistic style. Co-produced, co-written & directed by Kazuyoshi Okuyama; co-written by Yuhei Enoki, based on Rampo's novel; starring Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Masahiro Motoki, Teruyuki Kagawa & Mikijiro Hira; 9 nominations by Japanese Academy (won 1) M.G.M. Video widescreen color DVD [2/2004] for $13.49 Hallmark color VHS [2/97] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
 | "Rampo Jigoku" aka "Rampo Noir" [Geneon/Toei Japan Nov 2005]
Starring well-known actor Tadanobu Asano, the four chilling segments are: "Canal of Mars" written & directed by Suguru Takeuchi, from the story "Kasei no Unga"; "Caterpillar" directed by Hisayasu Sato, written by Shirô Yumeno, from the 1929 story "Imomushi"; "Crawling Bugs" written & directed by Atsushi Kaneko, from the story "Mushi"; and "The Hell of Mirrors" directed by Akio Jissoji, written by Akio Satsukawa, from the 1926 story "Kagami jigoku" Kadokawa widescreen color DVD [10/2006] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
 | "The Edogawa Rampo Reader" [2008] Preface by Takayuki Tatsumi, translation by Seth Jacobowitz First English-language printing of 8 stories & 10 essays Kurodahan Press 8x5 pb [12/2008] for $14.40 |
Satyajit Ray [1921-92] + Feluda of Calcutta series
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Satyajit Ray [1921-92] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
 | "The Complete Adventures of Feluda" [1983] by Satyajit Ray; translated by Chitrita Banerji Between 1965 and 1992, India's master filmmaker Satyajit Ray wrote a total of 335 Feluda stories, featuring Pradosh C. Mitter, a private detective living in Kolkata, India Volume 1: Penguin 8¼x5¼ pb [1/2004] $35.00 Volume 2: Penguin India 8¼x5½ pb [2/2005] for $34.95 |
Ms. S.J. Rozan
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Lydia Chin & Bill Smith in New York's Chinatown series
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Pernille Rygg of Norway + Igi Heitmann series
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Soji Shimada (author of over 100 mysteries)
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Georges Simenon [1903-89] + Insp. Maigret of Paris series
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 | "Simenon: A Critical Biography" [1987] by Stanley G. Eskin McFarland & Co. pb [10/2011] for $30.00
McFarland & Co. 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/87] out of print/used |
 | "The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon" [1993] by Patrick Marnham Harvest 9x6 pb [12/2003] for $22.00 FS&G hardcover [4/93] out of print/many used |
 | "The Maigret Collection" DVD Box Set [2005]
Koch Vision color DVD set [7/2005] 4 disks for $89.99 contains 12 episodes of the Granada Television series of 1992-93, starring Michael Gambon, including "Maigret's Boyhood Friend", "Maigret and The Burglar's Wife", "Maigret Sets A Trap", and "Maigret and The Mad-Woman" |
 | "Maigret: La Collection" [2006] 54-episode French-language television series [1991-2005] on non-U.S. Region 2 PAL format DVD (with English subtitles); starring Bruno Cremer Volume 1: Éclair widescreen color DVD set [6/2007] 10 disks - out of prodn/used Volume 2: Éclair widescreen color DVD set [6/2007] 10 disks - out of prodn/used Volume 3: Éclair widescreen color DVD set [6/2007] 10 disks - out of prodn/used Volume 4: Éclair widescreen color DVD set [6/2007] 10 disks - out of prodn/used "Coffret 1-2-3-4 Maigret": 42 episodes of the French TV series One On One widescreen [10/2006] 50 PAL disks for €157,99 from Amazon France |
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Maj Sjöwall [b. 1935] & Per Wahlöö [1926-75]
+ Swedish police series [1965-75]
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Per Wahlöö credits at IMDb
NOTE Sept 2008: Vintage/Black Lizard is reissuing all ten Martin Beck books
Maj Sjöwall page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
Per Wahlöö page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
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Edward Sklepowich: all books • no entry at Wikipedia
Urbino Mcintyre in Venice, Italy series
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Alexander McCall Smith
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No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (of Botswana) series
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"The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency" TV series [Weinstein/H.B.O. 2008]
Co-written & directed by Anthony Minghella;
credits from IMDb
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Dana Stabenow of Alaska
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Alaskan Kate Shugak series: series books
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Akimitsu Takagi [1920-95]
+ Prof. Kyosuke Kamizu series
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Wikipedia
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James Thompson
+ Insp. Kari Vaara of Finland series
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entry at Wikipedia {empty}
 | "Snow Angels: An Inspector Vaara Novel" [2010] During the two weeks of annual midwinter darkness, the police chief of a small Lapland village has to deal with the murder and rape of a young Somali immigrant (and minor film star), and the prime suspect is the chief's ex-wife's current lover. Berkley Trade 7¾x5 pb [2/2011] for $11.20 Putnam Adult 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2010] for $17.47 |
 | "Lucifer's Tears: An Inspector Vaara Novel" [2011]
Insp. Vaara has transferred to Helsinki where he is assigned the case of the torture murder of a wealthy Russian married woman, as well as the investigation of war crimes accusations against a 90-year-old national hero. Berkley Trade pb [DUE Feb 2012] for $10.20 Putnam Adult 9x6 hardcover [3/2011] for $16.47 |
Masako Togawa
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Helene Tursten
+ Swedish Det. Insp. Irene Huss series
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Helene Tursten page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
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Janwillem van de Wetering + Amsterdam police series
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Janwillem van de Wetering page at Project Runeberg {in Swedish}
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Fred Vargas + Chief Insp. Adamsberg of Paris series
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Christopher West of U.K.
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Insp. Wang Anzhuang of Beijing, China C.I.D. series:
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Robert Wilson of Portugal
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Insp. Javier Falcón in Seville, Spain series
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Ted Wood:
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Reid Bennett of Ontario, Canada series
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Eric Wright
+ Charlie Salter, etc. of Canada
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 | "A Killing Climate: The Collected Mystery Stories of Eric Wright" [2003] Crippen & Landru 8¾x6¾ pb [10/2003] for $17.00 Crippen & Landru hardcover [10/2003] out of print/used |
Qiu 'Joe' Xiaolong
+ Chief Insp. Chen Cao of Shanghai, China series
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Seishi Yokomizo [1902-81]
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