The Passing Tramp

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

Friday, October 31, 2025

A Runic MacGuffin: Night of the Demon (1957) (film)

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John Hobart ( Dana Andrews ) at Stonehenge investigates the clue of the parchment runes. Or as The Rocky Horror Show  irreverently put it in...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Mothers Are Doing It for Themselves: Psycho (1959), by Robert Bloch

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Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed. -- Psycho  (1959), Robert Bloch NOTE: Spoile...
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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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