The Passing Tramp

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

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Oh, Ell'ry Q, Baby I love You! (Well, Most of the Time Anyway): More Looking Back at the TV Series

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I like the way you're not spruce I like the way you deduce.... --from Ell'ry Q , written on the spur of the moment by The Passing Tr...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

I Want My QTV! Ellery Queen, the Television Series, Part III (Is It Third Period Already?)

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Episodes 13-15 of Ellery Queen seem to suggest that the series, as it entered the new year of 1976, was already becoming somewhat enervated...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Why, Mr. Queen, You're Ever So Keen! More Remembrances of Queens Past

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How much did I like the Ellery Queen television series, when I first watched it as a kid, back in 1975?  Well, for my birthday my parents g...
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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Why, Ellery, I think You're Swellery! Remembering the Ellery Queen Television Series, Part One

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First, this post was inspired by Brad Freidman 's ongoing  series on the 1975-76 Ellery Queen television series over at his Ah Sweet M...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich: A Photo Album from the Twenties to the Sixties

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The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich was a 1965 collection of short stories, one of two Cornell Woolrich short story collections published tha...
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Saturday, January 8, 2022

Cornell Woolrich, George Tarler and the Ballad of Blink Kelly

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Cornell Woolrich  appears to have lived a retiring and isolated existence on the whole, being more an observer of life than an experiencer o...
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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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