The Passing Tramp

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

Thursday, November 13, 2025

B is for Borgias: The Borgia Cabinet (1930), by J. S. Fletcher

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Striking jacket design for Knopf's edition of The Borgia Cabinet . JS Fletche r was one of the publisher's most lucrative authors, t...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Out Now! Nothing Darker Than The Night (2025), by Curtis Evans

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I'm happy to say that the publisher Stark House has published Nothing Darker Than The Night  a collection of essays from the last fifte...
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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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