The Passing Tramp

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

Monday, July 29, 2019

The Many Fancies of Mr. Morland: More on the Famous (and often Infamous) People Nigel Morland Knew (or Not)

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illustration from The Armchair Detective In 1978, seventy-three-year-old crime writer Nigel Morland sat down for an interview with freel...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

The Many Mysteries of Mr. Morland: Was He Really Edgar Wallace's Secretary, Did He Really Know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Did He Really Sit on Dr. Crippen's Knee--and What about that Business Concerning Jack the Ripper?

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Introduction I'm already doing cleanup on my last, extremely long blog post, which is all about vintage crime writer Nigel Morland  (19...
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Sunday, July 21, 2019

The Many Faces of Mr. Morland: The Story of Nigel Morland (1905-1986), aka Nigel van Biene, aka Carl van Biene and Quite a Few Other People Besides

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detail from Synagogue of El Transito , Toledo, Spain founded in the 14th century by Samuel ha-Levi an ancestor of crime writer  Nigel Mo...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

The World Is too Much with Us: Isms and Phobias in Golden Age Crime Fiction

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WARNING: There is offensive racist language in the quoted passages from a vintage crime novel immediately below.  They are quoted without ce...
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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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