The Passing Tramp

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

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Rocked Out: Some Lie and Some Die (1973) by Ruth Rendell

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As I commented on a previous post, Ruth Rendell when she was publicizing one of her final novels, The Child's Child  (2012), divulged t...
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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Died on the Vine: The Child's Child (2012), by Barbara Vine

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By the time the 21st century rolled around, Ruth Rendell , who turned seventy as its dawn, had published forty-six novels and six short stor...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Quoth the Ravens, "Nevermore!": An Unkindness of Ravens (1985), by Ruth Rendell

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One intriguing aspect of these birds [ravens] is the collective noun used to describe a group of them: unkindness....there are several other...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Shiver and be Gay: No Night is Too Long (1994), by Barbara Vine

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Readers of this blog will recall my posting last year about how I was fired by Otto Penzler (OP) from writing intros for Mysterious Press...
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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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