The Passing Tramp

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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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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