The Passing Tramp

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

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Mignon Eberhart in Valentine, Nebraska, c. 1928-1930

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Mignon Eberhart Mignonette Good Eberhart, known to the world as the mystery writer Mignon Eberhart , was born in Nebraska on July 6, 189...
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Friday, December 5, 2014

I Saw it with My Own Two Eyes: Independent Witness (1963), by Henry Cecil

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Henry Cecil Leon (1902-1976) was an English judge who in 1951 started, under the name Henry Cecil, a series of two dozen novels, very often...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Golden Age in Modern Memory: Historians of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction

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" A crime novel, however ingenious and exciting the plot, can only succeed if we care primarily about the people. "             ...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

It Takes a Village: Whispering Tongues (1934), by Laurence Kirk

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" An absorbingly interesting story, excellently written, natural, convincing....If every thriller were as worth while [as Whispering To...
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Friday, November 28, 2014

P. D. James (1920-2014)

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I was very sad to learn, getting in late from Thanksgiving festivities, of the death of P. D. James .  I have enjoyed reading her crime fict...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Vanishing History: Wilders Walk Away (1948), by Herbert Brean

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Other people die of mumps, Or general decay, Of fever, chills or others ills But Wilders walk away. Herbert Brean 's first crime ...
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Saturday, November 22, 2014

How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Rio? The Farm at Paranao (The Farm at Santa Fe) (1935), by Laurence Kirk Full Review

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Up to that afternoon one would have felt quite certain in predicting the course of Fanny's future life. It would be a dull, safe, respec...
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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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