Sunday, March 8, 2015

No Past Is Dead: The Last Talk with Lola Faye (2010), by Thomas H. Cook

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the American hardcover edition by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's (an Otto Penzler book) --a beautfiul edition Lola Faye peered at me...
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

By the Bookplate II The Philanthropist Forger: Moe Turman, The House of the Missing and the Money that Vanished

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Are people who commit crimes more likely to be attracted to crime fiction? Or does fictional crook stuff inevitably fizzle with crooks? Fr...
Friday, March 6, 2015

A Couple of (John) Christmas Mysteries: The Studio Crime (1929) and Dead Man's Quarry (1930), by Ianthe Jerrold

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British author Ianthe Jerrold  (1898-1977) wrote two detective novels, The Studio Crime (1929) and Dead Man's Quarry (1930).  Both book...
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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Star Power: Crime on My Hands (1944) and Stranger at Home (1946), by George Sanders

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I was pleased to see that the distinguished critic and author Michael Dirda devoted his most recent piece  in the Washington Post to the G...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

The Bells and the Bees: Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov Discuss Detective Fiction

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American literary critic and author Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) famously (infamously to many) voiced his disdain for detective fiction in a c...
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A Life of Crime: Sinclair Gluck (1887-1956)

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the author of mellodrammers strikes a most dignified pose With so much of American Golden Age crime fiction the focus in genre studies...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Guest Post from The Strolling Player: Twelve Favorite Film Adaptations of Golden Age Detective Novels

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The Passing Tramp is proud to introduce to you Scott Ratner , known here as The Strolling Player , author of the Agatha Christie -inspire...
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