The Passing Tramp: Wandering through the mystery genre, book by book.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
John Dickson Carr at the Heights
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John Dickson Carr presumably taken in 1927, after Carr had left Haverford College and was about to travel to Europe There seems to be...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019
A Mid-Century Mid-Life Crisis: John Dickson Carr's Crime Fiction in the Second Half of the 1900s
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For whatever reasons, the Fifties and Sixties saw a decline in the work of many surviving Golden Age detective fiction authors, and John Dic...
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Friday, November 22, 2019
Wicked Belgraveians: The Belgrave Manor Crime (1935), by Moray Dalton
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My copy of Moray Dalton's The Belgrave Manor Crime --it's the fifth Inspector Hugh Collier novel, first published in 1935 and will b...
Monday, November 18, 2019
Murd'rous Queer Witchery It Be! The Condamine Case (1947), by Moray Dalton
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'Tes a queer place seemingly....Full of ghostesses, what with beasts coming down from the church roof and her that walks up to Great Bar...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019
Willoughby Sharp, Claude Kendall and Murder
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Madison Hotel where Claude Kendall was murdered Six years ago Coachwhip reprinted two vintage mysteries by stockbroker turned mystery...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Bumped off in the Blackout: The Art School Murders (1943), by Moray Dalton
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A blackout during war, or in preparation for an expected war, is the practice of collectively minimizing outdoor light....to prevent crews...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Poetry Corner in the Murder Room: Agatha Christie, Moray Dalton, Frances Cornford, tomcats and Rupert Brooke
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Frances Cornford (1886-1960) was an English poet and contemporary countrywoman of crime writers Agatha Christie (1890-1976) and Moray Dal...
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