tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post2967504914697013441..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Empty Chairs: The Murders Near Mapleton (1929), by Brian Flynn--Merry Christmas from the Passing TrampThe Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-89413230659031936002017-12-31T12:42:12.998-08:002017-12-31T12:42:12.998-08:00Thanks, Moira, I've always enjoyed your blog t...Thanks, Moira, I've always enjoyed your blog too. I think people would enjoy Flynn, I know The Puzzle Doctor does!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-13524940962015340102017-12-30T06:27:23.760-08:002017-12-30T06:27:23.760-08:00Happy Christmas Curt, and best wishes for 2018.
th...Happy Christmas Curt, and best wishes for 2018.<br />this book sounds like a goody - to go with all the splendid other titles you have recommended over the years...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-90195731330129639402017-12-28T14:49:45.229-08:002017-12-28T14:49:45.229-08:00Happy Christmas, Pietro!Happy Christmas, Pietro!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-5819120002852763572017-12-28T14:48:34.196-08:002017-12-28T14:48:34.196-08:00I would think a lot of people would enjoy his myst...I would think a lot of people would enjoy his mysteries. There's a lot in them of what people want from the genre in the vintage mold. The writing can be a bit stolid, but then he suddenly will drop these asides which are really rather cute as we Americans say. <br /><br />I had picked up some of his books over the years, as I had with Bude, but, as with Bude, he has now become rather a rare find. I wish I had picked up some more before you started reviewing. e was an author I was keeping mum about until everything was nailed down. There are only so many authors who can be reprinted in a year! That's something I never imagined I'd be saying a few years ago!<br /><br />On the twist, it's a comparatively minor one, but it did floor me how it's exactly the same as one used by a much better-known author the same year. And it's not the kind of thing you would have expected spontaneously to occur to two people )who, presumably, didn't know each other) in the same year in the world of 1929.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-15314977535734714472017-12-28T13:07:29.879-08:002017-12-28T13:07:29.879-08:00Sorry for "pinching" Invisible Death bef...Sorry for "pinching" Invisible Death before you could read it but you did pick one that I haven't read - yet. I think Flynn's verbosity is his weakest point - Sayers picked up on it in one of her reviews of his work - but I do find some of his overly embellished prose entertaining, more so than, say, Ronald Knox, someone else who would use ten word when one could do. Interesting that you mention him using a trick from a better known novel - at least it was from the same year this time, as there is one case where he uses a trick that he must have heard from a few years previously. On the other hand, he predates one of Christie's bigger surprises in one of his other books.<br /><br />I do hope that there is good news to come regarding his reappearance in print (or e-print). As you mention, I seem to have become Flynn's advocate at the moment, thanks to an accidental purchase of The Mystery Of The Peacock's Eye by my sister-in-law as a Christmas present last year and I do hope more people get to find out why I enjoy his work so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-50116294608642608232017-12-25T11:20:57.565-08:002017-12-25T11:20:57.565-08:00Happy Christmas, Curt!Happy Christmas, Curt!Pietro De Palmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06051060020493340331noreply@blogger.com