Faith’s Reviews > The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries > Status Update

Just finished “The Twelfth Statue” by Stanley Ellis. It’s not on goodreads on its own so I’ll review it here. One of the best stories in this book so far! Also one of the longest. The characters were interesting and well constructed, and the solution was CREEPY as anything!!

Finished “The Crewel Needle” by Gerald Kersh. WOW. A good, creepy story, and wonderfully told. I enjoyed the conversational tone in this one a lot.

Couldn’t find an edition of “The Department of Impossible Crimes” by James Yaffe. Hey, it’s wake up dead man, just a lot less interesting. I really couldn’t stand the detective’s whole shtick in this one. Paul Dawn puts on a superior persona but really doesn’t have anything to back it up with, except for being able to get the right answer through the magic of logic.