The Passing Tramp

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

Saturday, May 30, 2015

A Parade of Jackets: Theodora DuBois and Sam Zaccone

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Reviews of  Mabel Seeley  and  Reginald Hill  to come, but in the meantime I thought you might like seeing these  Theodore DuBois  book...
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Monday, May 25, 2015

Something about a Will: Child's Play (1987), by Reginald Hill

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Reginald Hill 's death at the beginning of 2012 received less attention from the major presses than did the deaths of "Crime Queens...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Tea'd Off: Death Comes to Tea (1940), by Theodora DuBois

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After an affair as shocking as my tea party on January twentieth, you naturally think back and try to discover the origin of the trouble.......
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Friday, May 22, 2015

Du-Over: Theodora DuBois and Death Comes to Tea (1940)

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Well, this always goes to show you that you can't always judge an author by one book. I was hugely disappointed with Death Is Late to ...
Friday, May 15, 2015

The Boost of the Blurb: Death of a Beauty Queen (1935), by E. R. Punshon

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The first five titles in Dean Street Press' reprint series of E. R. Punshon 's Bobby Owen mysteries are now available in paperback, ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Exit Lines: No Man's Nightingale (2013), by Ruth Rendell

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What turned out to be the final novel in Ruth Rendell 's near half-century Inspector Wexford saga appeared in 2013, under the title No M...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Country House Con Games: Carson's Conspiracy (1984), by Michael Innes

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Perhaps more than any British Golden Age mystery author outside those belonging to the select company of the "Crime Queens" them...
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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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