The Passing Tramp

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

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Memorial: Howard Tokley and Hugh Wheeler--A World War Two Hero and His Fan Letters to "Jonathan Stagge"

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This Memorial Day in the United States lets us remember our American military veterans.  Especially, here at The Passing Tramp , our militar...
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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Poetry Corner in the Murder Room 2 Moray Dalton and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt

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dapper on deck Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt 1877-1915 One of the wealthiest men in the world when he lost his life during the First World W...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

The Persistence of Murder: The Case of the Dark Stranger (1948), by Moray Dalton

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As I understand it Dean Street Press will be reissuing five more Moray Dalton mysteries this winter. ( A Dalton for Christmas! )  I intend ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Wives, Mothers and Other Suspicious Characters: The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories (1953), by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Frightened Wife and Other Murder Stories (1953) contains two novellas and three short stories, as follows...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Hospitals Will Kill You: A Stitch in Time (1968), by Emma Lathen

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"I always tell young men just starting their medical careers that they have to realize every hospital is going to have a certain number...
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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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