The Passing Tramp

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

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Final Count: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

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The list so far: #20 The Hanging Captain (1932), by Henry Wade #19 The Hanging Woman (1931), John Rhode #18 Death of a Star (1932), M...
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Monday, December 29, 2014

I Can't Stop the Countdown: #10-#6

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The list so far : 20. The Hanging Captain (1932), by Henry Wade 19. The Hanging Woman (1931), by John Rhode 18. Death of a Star (1932), ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

The Countdown Continues....

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The countdown so far : #20 The Hanging Captain (1932), by Henry Wade #19 The Hanging Woman (1931), by John Rhode #18 Death of a Star (19...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

The Countdown Begins: The Passing Tramp's 2014 Best Books Blogged

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Well, here we are again, another year gone by and it's time for the third annual Best Books Blogged at The Passing Tramp , where I pick...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Fancy-Death Ball: Dancing Death (1931), by Christopher Bush

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Ah, those English Christmas season country house parties: so delightful and so deadly! At the house party at Little Levington Hall in Chri...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Love Will Have Its Way: Mignon Eberhart on Romance in Mystery Fiction (1944)

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Mignon Eberhart , "American's Agatha Christie," was one of the major figures involved in the middle twentieth century in shift...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

To Speak or Not to Speak: Tell Death to Wait (1939), by Anita Boutell

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Death waits for no one.... (the American edition of Tell Death to Wait) Anita Boutell authored four mystery novels that were publishe...
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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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