The Passing Tramp

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

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Murder Ends the Song (1941), by Alfred Meyers

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Coachwhip has reprinted Alfred Meyers ' Murder Ends the Song  (1941), a detective novel I reviewed, very favorably, back in March 2013...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

The Spectrum of English Murder (2015), by Curtis Evans; Plus, the Punshon Project

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The Spectrum of English Murder , my study of the detective fiction of the Golden Age English mystery writers Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletche...
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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Kill a Better Mousetrap (2011), by Scott K. Ratner

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Ah, then I take it you're not much of an Agatha Christie fan. Not much of--?  I love Agatha Christie!!   Love !!  She was amazing!!  ...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Eliot Elucidates: T. S. Eliot's Detective Fiction Rules

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When discussing Golden Age detective fiction people often reference the "rules" for writing it set forth by mystery authors Ron...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Listen to Your Mother (s) 3: Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction (2010), by Lucy Sussex, Part 2

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The first chapter of Lucy Sussex 's  Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre ...
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Listen to Your Mother (s) 2: Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre (2010), by Lucy Sussex, Part 1

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Lucy Sussex 's Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre (2010) is one of the...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Listen to Your Mother(s) I: The Development of the Detective Novel (1958), by Alma Elizabeth Murch

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On this blog I spend so much time looking at forgotten twentieth-century crime writers that I tend not to glance back as much as I should to...
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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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