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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