The Passing Tramp

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

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Killing Kindness: The Lenient Beast (1956) by Fredric Brown

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As crime and mystery writers got increasingly interested during the mid-century in the psychology of murderers, fictional slayers became por...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Brownie Points A Fredric Brown Review Roundup: Night of the Jabberwock (1950)

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I haven't posted in almost a month but have been working on a Fredric Brown article and I did a couple of book intros in that time too....
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Spirit Messages from MAGA World: The Surly Sullen Bell/Lost Lake (1962), by Russell Kirk

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Michigan writer and intellectual Russell Kirke (1918-1994)  has been called  the Forgotten Father of American Conservatism and the greatest...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Brown Study: Correcting Some of the Biographical Details on Fredric Brown

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I looked into the biographical information on Fredric Brown over the weekend and found a lot of it is wrong.  So I thought I would go over ...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Noir Weekend Benders I--Scream Queen: The Screaming Mimi (1949), Fredric Brown

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" It isn't a nice story.  It's got murder in it, and women and liquor and gambling and even prevarication. " -- The Scream...
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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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