The Passing Tramp

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

Friday, June 13, 2025

Telephone Line: Twenty Plus Two (1961), by Frank Gruber and its 1961 film adaptation

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Frank Gruber was a successful and above all else extremely prolific pulps writer of the Thirties who like Cornell Woolrich and other pulps ...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Red Flag! Miss Brown of X.Y.O. (1927), by E. Phillips Oppenheim

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" [W]e shall hear the Red Flag sung in Westminster Abbey within the next twelve months. " -- Miss Brown of X. Y. O.  (1927), by E....
Friday, April 11, 2025

End of an Era: Peter Lovesey (1936-2025)

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Peter Lovesey in the 1970s, when he began publishing crime fiction This is a hard piece for me to write, not because I think  Peter Lovesey ...
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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Plain Jane: Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), by PD James

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" But this light-heartedness was not to last. " --Death Comes to Pemberley   In the final chapter of  Pride and Prejudice  (1813) ...
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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Black bird scheming in the dead of night: 95 Years with The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett

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"What's this bird, this falcon, that everybody's all steamed up about?" "You're a fine lot of lollipops!" --...
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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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