The Passing Tramp

The Passing Tramp: Wandering through the mystery genre, book by book.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

What "Killed" Crispin? The Creative Life and Death of Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin, Part Five

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"Worth waiting for!" the publisher Gollancz assured Edmund Crispin's fans when The Glimpses of the Moon finally appeared in...
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Friday, December 9, 2011

Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery

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A couple years after the 1957 death of the great Golden Age detective novelist Freeman Wills Crofts, crime writer and critic Julian Symons ...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Todd Downing House in Atoka, Oklahoma

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Below is featured the Atoka, Oklahoma family home of the Native American Golden Age detective novelist Todd Downing.  Downing returned to ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Todd Downing: Murders in Mexico

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Todd Downing was born in Atoka, Oklahoma in 1902.  Downing was a quarter Choctaw, the Popular Library informed readers in its paperback...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Authors Encountered on the Passing Tramp's Recent Trip

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The Tramp recently passed through three interesting places on a research trip for his newest book project, a broad study of the transition o...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

What "Killed" Crispin? The Creative Life and Death of Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin, Part Four

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After the publication of The Long Divorce (1951) Bruce Montgomery would not publish another detective novel for twenty-six years.  He did, ...
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Author of "Masters of the 'Humdrum' Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961" "Magisterial"--Michael Dirda "Edgar Committee, Mystery Writers of America, take note!"--Allen J. Hubin "This should be a certain Edgar nominee"--Jon L. Breen, Mystery Scene "Clues and Corpses: The Detective Fiction and Mystery Criticism of Todd Downing." "Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene" (editor and contributor) "The Spectrum of English Murder: The Detective Fiction of Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher and GDH and Margaret Cole" and the Edgar-nominated "Murder in the Closet: Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall" (editor and contributor)
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