The Passing Tramp

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

Saturday, August 24, 2024

The Stranger: Grey Mask (1928), by Patricia Wentworth

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Some are satin, some are steel Some are silk and some are leather They're the faces of the stranger And we love to try them on. The Stra...
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Sunday, July 7, 2024

Shinju: The 1939 Deaths of Sir William and Lady (Beatrice) Reid and the Genesis of Agatha Christie's Elephants Can Remember (1972)

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" Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother? " --Bossy Mrs. Burton-Cox badgers Ariadne Oliver abou...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Elephant Talk: Some Observations about Digressions in Elephants Can Remember (1972), by Agatha Christie

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"I was really thinking of elephants....what we really have got to do is to get at the people who are like elephants.  Because elephants...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Into the Woods: Dean Street Press is Reprinting the Detective Fiction of Sara Woods (Eileen Mary Lana Hutton Bowen Judd), 1916-1985

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Today I am most pleased to announce that Dean Street Press is reprinting the Antony Maitland detective fiction of Anglo-Canadian mystery wr...
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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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