The Passing Tramp

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

Monday, December 2, 2013

Gone Fishing: A Mystery Artifact

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Lake Wallenpaupack     Aug. 20, 43 Dear Son & Daughter: We caught 3 Pike and 1 calico Bass yesterday, 3 Pike today, 3 pike 17 in, 1 pike...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

Murder Most Haughty: Death Is Late to Lunch (1941), by Theodora DuBois

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In my earlier  blog post today on Theodora DuBois I noted that, despite having a bright young couple as her detectives (a popular mystery f...
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Giving Thanks for the Blog's Two-Year Anniversary

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I'm a week late to my blog's own second-year anniversary, but better late than never for commemorating, I suppose. Here is my  fir...
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Death Is Late To Lunch (1941), Theodora DuBois

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Theodora DuBois (1890-1986) was a longtime prolific professional writer who, among other things, wrote detective and suspense tales.  Betwe...
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Monday, November 25, 2013

Tales of the Impossible: Banner Deadlines (2004)

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back of the book showing a photo of the author The impossible crime stories of Joseph Commings have attained cult status over the year...
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Banner Deadlines (2004), by Joseph Commings

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Senator Banner shines a light on a problem Since 1994 the publisher Crippen & Landru has published over 100 collections of mystery...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Who Is This Lady?

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Any guessers as to this mystery author's identity?  I had never seen this particular photo of her before.
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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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