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In its starred review, Publisher’s Weekly says: “Once again Halter crafts a completely logical and plausible explanation for the fantastic.” It is 1902 and in London’s infamously haunted East End there are rumours of a strange passageway which can swallow up anyone who ventures there at night and make them disappear. Kraken Street can only vanish and reappear, it can also conjure up visions of murders past and predict future ones. Who better to address this astonishing state of affairs than Owen Burns, a dandy aesthete who appreciates murder as a fine art and lends his services to Scotland Yard? This is LRI’s tenth Paul Halter translation. The author, a best-selling novelist in his native France, has written over thirty novels, almost all ‘locked room’ or ‘impossible crime,’ and is widely regarded as the successor to John Dickson Carr. He appeared on BBC Radio 4’s program ‘Miles Jupp in a Locked Room,’ broadcast on May 21, 2012. An earlier novel ‘The Crimson Fog’ was named one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Top Mysteries of 2013. Locked Room International also translates and publishes the works of other international impossible crime authors past and present. For information about signed and lettered editions of all living authors please contact pugmire1@yahoo.com or go to www.mylri.com.
- Sales Rank: #1810310 in Books
- Published on: 2015-07-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .38" w x 6.00" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
About the Author
Paul Halter was born in Hagenau, Alsace, in 1956. He pursued technical studies in his youth before joining the French Marines in the hope of seeing the world. Disappointed with the lack of travel, he left the military and, for a while, sold life insurance while augmenting his income playing the guitar in the local dance orchestra. Upon discovering the writings of John Dickson Carr, he gave up the guitar for the pen. He has since written over 30 novels, almost all “locked room,” including La Quatrieme Porte (The Fourth Door,) which won the Prix du Roman Policier in 1987, and Le Brouillard Rouge (The Crimson Fog,) which won the coveted French Prix du Roman d’Aventures in 1988, the prestigious Japanese Honkaku Mystery Award in 2005, and was named as one of the Publisher’s Weekly Top Mysteries of 2013. The Fourth Door and The Crimson Fog are both available in English, as are The Lord of Misrule, The Seven Wonders of Crime, The Demon of Dartmoor, The Seventh Hypothesis, The Tiger’s Head, The Invisible Circle and The Picture from the Past. M. Halter is a frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: The Call of the Lorelei, The Tunnel of Death, The Night of the Wolf, The Robber’s Grave, Nausicaa’s Ball, The Gong of Doom, The Man With the Face of Clay, Jacob’s Ladder, The Wolf of Fenrir and more to come. In 2006 his collection of short stories ‘The Night of the Wolf’ appeared in English, to critical acclaim. It was reprinted in 2012 as part of the LRI series For more information and articles about Paul Halter, please go to: http://lockedroominternational.com/
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A superb weird mystery
By Santosh Iyer
This book is the English translation of the French book La Ruelle Fantome by Paul Halter published in 2005 and features the series character Owen Burns.
Ralph Tierney, a diplomat,arrives distraught at the residence of Owen Burns in London and tells him a very strange story. The diplomat while wandering haphazardly through a labyrinth of dark streets in the night, entered a narrow alley called Kraken Street as per the street sign. He was accosted by a seemingly mad man and directed towards a house further down the alley. Here he saw a blind man selling grapes and a woman in red cloak sitting on the porch. The woman directed him to go to a room on the second floor of the house opposite, totally dark except for an oil lamp above the stairwell. On reaching there, he saw visions through the window. Frightened, he fumbled his way out and saw that the blind man and the woman in red were still there. He walked back up the alley and saw the mad man still there. He reached the main street. After a few steps , he noted that his lighter was missing. Thinking that he might have lost it in the alley, he retraced his steps but found that the narrow alley had vanished completely and in its place was a high brick wall without any openings !
Ralph is not the only person to have such a crazy experience. Previously also, two persons had generally the same experiences; only the visions were different. They also saw the mad man, the blind man and the woman in red. They were also directed to a room on the second floor of the opposite house where they saw visions.They also found that the alley had vanished completely after they came out. Also, prior to that, two other persons had disappeared in that area and it was rumoured that they had been swallowed by Kraken Street.
It is later found that the visions seen pertain to actual past events and in one case, even to a future event.
Can such weird happenings have a rational explanation? Who is/are behind this? What is the motive?
Owen Burns solves the case and gives a rational, ingenious solution. The central trick is really very clever.
The book is suspenseful and virtually unputdownable. A very enjoyable read despite some obvious plot holes.. Highly recommended. Not to be missed by mystery fans.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Owen Burns is Paul Halter's "Sherlock Holmes."
By Edward J. Cunningham
It's taken me a while to warm up to Owen Burns. Burns is one of two recurring detectives used by French mystery writer and impossible crime specialist Paul Halter. He's a wealthy dilettante who solves crimes as a hobby and believes that murder can be just as much a work of art as a painting or sculpture. The first time I read Burns was in the book The Seven Wonders of Crime where he and sidekick Achilles Stock had to solve a series of murders based on the seven wonders of the ancient world. Many reviewers thought that the murders were hit or miss, but I had less problems with them than with Owen Burns' behavior at the end of the book. For a supposedly brilliant detective, he seemed fairly dumb in the final chapter. However, I became more impressed with him in two of the short stories recounted in The Night of the Wolf. In one story, he solves an impossible murder set in the Old West, and in another he explains how not only is there really a Santa Claus, but that Santa Claus is a killer! Then I went on to read the last Owen Burns book available, which I avoided because it received lukewarm reviews on mystery books blogs, The Lord of Misrule. I found that those reviews were unfair, and that "Misrule" is actually a very good mystery. I found the behavior of the first victim believable (unlike another reviewer), and I was impressed with the presentation of the solution to the mystery, which mimics a famous trick done by Ellery Queen in two different books.
What I came late to realize is that Owen Burns' is Paul Halter's Sherlock Holmes. Of course, Burns is patterned more after the Irish poet and wit Oscar Wilde---if Wilde was a ladies' man---than the famous detective of Baker Street, but I find Burns just as fascinating, but more likable. When Holmes says he's the smartest guy in the room, sometimes you want to punch him in the face. Burns would say the same thing but with a smile and with absolutely no malice. In fact, he's the type of guy who---after hitting on your wife---will have you buying him a drink and laughing with him after he discovers his mistake. There's nothing wrong with Dr. Alan Twist, who is Halter's OTHER series detective, but Twist is almost too unassuming and colorless. Burns lights up the room when he appears, and you miss him when he leaves the scene.
In this story, Owen Burns and his Watson, Achilles Stock, have to solve the mystery of a mysterious street that not only disappears out of thin air, but also has the power to show past and FUTURE murders. The method Paul Halter uses to explain the Kraken Street disappearances is very simple and clever, and I don't hold it against him that I was able to mostly figure it out. (I only have a problem with stories like They Do It With Mirrors: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries Book 6) where the solution is so blatantly obvious that everyone in the book seems like an imbecile for not seeing it sooner.) If there is a weakness, it's that usually the case in impossible crimes that the solution to the "howdunit" inevitably points to "whodunit." That's not the case here, and I think the clues pointing towards the killer are actually very slight. That's why I wrote that I "mostly" got the solution right. I could figure out mostly HOW Kraken Street disappeared, but as to WHO did it, I only had an educated guess, and even then I wasn't so sure.
Still, this was a very good book, and it's almost as if Owen Burns was trying to make up for the ending to "Seven Wonders", because not only does he NOT look like an idiot, but his scheme to trap the murderer is brilliant. I especially like the way he pulls out a red herring from a seemingly abandoned plotline earlier in the book to show how this trap was possible on the very last page. I also think that this might be John Pugmire's best translating work to date. There aren't that many places in this book that make me stumble like "detestable souvenir" did in The Picture from the Past and if I didn't know better, I'd think this was written in English.
Actually, there is one LITTLE problem with this book. It took me two days to finish this book, and most readers will go through it in one. I was sad to finish this book so quickly because now I will have to wait a long time to get a new English translation of a Paul Halter book---or learn French myself so I can read the originals.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
People are disappearing down a street that fades away in the dense London fog
By Patto
Some victims of Kraken Street are never seen again. Others report terrifying experiences. They tell of hallucinatory sensations -- and visions of violent events that took place in the past or come true in the future.
Scotland Yard gets involved. A disappearing street seems too fantastic to be believed, but disappearances have to be investigated.
This is just the kind of case bizarre enough to interest Owen Burns, art critic and amateur detective. He's been helpful to Scotland Yard before. His friend Achilles Stock acts as his Watson. Achilles is tough. His years in rough environments have taught him how to take care of himself in dangerous situations. He's ideal backup for the somewhat effete Burns. Another friend from America joins them in investigating. Amazingly Ralph happened upon Kraken Street just by chance, so he's a witness as well as an assistant.
The London setting is fun coming from a French author. Paul Halter makes the most of the pea-soup fog to create a sense of unreality and threat.
As usual with Halter mysteries, there's a logical explanation for the supernatural happenings. In this case, I found the plot a bit too contrived and convoluted for my taste. The characters are not very developed either. But readers who enjoy fantastic, serpentine mysteries should not be influenced by me. I give the book high marks for atmosphere, plot twists, and eerie effects.
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