Thursday, September 14, 2023

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime Detective? Cornell Woolrich's Great Depression and the Pulps

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Note from The Passing Tramp: This is an introduction that will appear with a new Cornell Woolrich short story collection by high end publish...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Auctions! Some new listings at eBay

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Here's a  link  to my latest book auctions at eBay.  Check it out.  I'm planning more listings next week.  I will try to get back to...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Auction!

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  Some auctions  by me in which you might be interested.  Check out the listings, vintage mystery fans.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Back to Eden: Will the Crime Fiction of Eden Phillpotts Ever Really Be Revived?

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When he was forty-six years old Eden Phillpotts advised his  nineteen-year-old Torquay neighbor Agatha Miller to stick with the writing thin...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Bringing Coles to New Readers: Shedunnit and Me and Douglas and Margaret Cole

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I was pleased to participate in a Shedunnit   podcast this month on the spousal mystery writing team of GDH (Douglas) and Margaret Cole , w...
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Sunday, June 25, 2023

From Stage to Page: Milton Herbert Gropper's and Edna Sherry's Inspector Kennedy/Homicide and Is No One Innocent? (with a tease on Edna Sherry's Sudden Fear)

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The Bijou Theater, where Inspector Kennedy played,  adjacent to the Morosco, where the Bat started it all In December 1929, Inspector Kenned...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

Children's Hour--Lady Bountiful in a Red Roadster: The Hidden Staircase (1930) and The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1931), by "Carolyn Keene"

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My sister's bedroom in our ranch house in Northport, Alabama back in the 1970s was decorated in colors of pale yellow and blue.  In the ...