Sunday, December 31, 2017

2017: Strange Yet Still Wonderful Days in the World of the Passing Tramp

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2017, though in terms of my family life the worst since I became an adult frankly (I won't start), began happily, in terms of my work (a...
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Monday, December 25, 2017

Empty Chairs: The Murders Near Mapleton (1929), by Brian Flynn--Merry Christmas from the Passing Tramp

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"You devil!  If words could burn, I'd rack the dictionary of Hell for your cremation--your blasted cleverness is inhuman!" -...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

A Life of Crime: Marian Babson (1929-2017), a "British" Writer and Her American Roots

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Marian Babson (1929-2017), who recently passed away in London at the age, I believe, of 88 (see Martin Edwards ' notice) , enjoyed a ca...
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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Romanced to Death: A Romantic Way to Die (2001), by Bill Crider

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One reason I like reading mysteries is that from them I learn about subjects concerning which I often know, quite frankly, dismayingly littl...
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Sunday, December 10, 2017

Living(ston) History 2 On the Mother's Side: A Trip to Merrie Olde England

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friend of the family the young Theodore Roosevelt As in the case of crime writer Rufus Kin g, who through his mother, Amelia Sarony La...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Living(ston) History: Frances Livingston Glover and her daughter, the unsinkable Susanna

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Crime writer Armstrong Livingston dedicated his mystery novel The Monster in the Pool (1929)--to be reviewed here soon I hope--to his lone...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Lavender Harvest: In Cold Blood (1931), by Armstrong Livingston

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[Is he] [g]enerous?  Or just another millionaire?" "Very generous.  He's paying all expenses, and even that didn't stop hi...
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