Saturday, January 30, 2021

Town Mouse, Country Mouse: Richard Nunley on Amanda Cross' The James Joyce Murder (1967)

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The country was more beautiful than ever in the evening light.  The farms seemed set out on the hills, neatly plowed fields contrasting in s...
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Friday, January 29, 2021

Antic Hay: The James Joyce Murder (1967), by Amanda Cross

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As you may have noticed lately, I have been reviewing, in honor of the forthcoming reissue of the mysteries of Anne Morice , who debuted as ...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calamity: The Possible Genesis of Patrick Quentin's Puzzle for Fiends (1946)

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Patrick Quentin's Puzzle for Fiends , the fifth of the author's critically acclaimed Peter Duluth mysteries, is the last in what mig...
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Saturday, January 23, 2021

Brush up Your Wordsworth: A Guilty Thing Surprised (1970), by Ruth Rendell

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The girls today in society Go for classical poetry So to win their hearts one must quote with ease Aeschylus and Euripides --" Brush up...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Puzzle for Fugitives: Run to Death (1948), by Patrick Quentin

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After the emotional fireworks of the sixth Patrick Quentin Peter Duluth novel, Puzzle for Pilgrims (1947), in which Peter and his estranged...
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Friday, January 1, 2021

Looking Back at 20 and Looking Ahead to 21

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As The Passing Tramp approaches its tenth anniversary as a blog, I thought I'd both look back at 2020 and look ahead to this new year, ...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

More from 1970: Patricia Moyes' Who Saw Her Die?/Many Deadly Returns

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the British first edition  of the novel Patricia Moyes ' Who Saw Her Die? (aka Many Deadly Returns in the US) may have followed the Go...
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