The Passing Tramp: Wandering through the mystery genre, book by book.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Witch's Moon (1941), by Giles Jackson (aka Dana Chambers, aka Albert Fear Leffingwell)
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" Whoever likes [their] murders multitudinous will find them here....[There's a] plethoric flow of gore short [only] of Nazi warfar...
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Friday, June 5, 2026
Come to the Cabaret: "Yellow Iris" (1937) by Agatha Christie, on the page and on radio
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Agatha Christie 's Hercule Poirot short story " Yellow Iris " was first published in The Strand in July 1937. Four months la...
Friday, May 29, 2026
"Talk 'em in a tea shoppe": Philip MacDonald's Warrant for X, aka The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (1938)
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Very interesting, Gethryn! A pretty story! A little forced, perhaps, but who can help that nowadays with so many people writing these thin...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
One Night in Laguna: The Dark Wheel (1948), by Philip MacDonald and A. Boyd Correll
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American first edition The page-long authors' blurb on the back of the dust jacket of The Dark Wheel (1948), a suspense novel co-author...
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Stormtroopers: "Wetback" (1956), by William O'Farrell
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"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best....They're sending people that have lots of problems....They'...
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