tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post1260677803024784366..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Meet "Lippincott's Popular Detective Novelists" (1929)The Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-73480614390771445772013-11-15T07:04:10.849-08:002013-11-15T07:04:10.849-08:00I've read them all too and they all have their...I've read them all too and they all have their points, I think.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-30332086329545218552013-11-11T20:14:12.234-08:002013-11-11T20:14:12.234-08:00I'm quite the opposite; I know Patricia Wentwo...I'm quite the opposite; I know Patricia Wentworth's work quite well but not much about the others. I'm sure I've read at least one by each, but not much that's stuck in my mind. Wentworth, though, to my mind had a lot of ability with characterization, when she allowed it full rein. Much of her work is formulaic and her characters behave as they are needed to behave -- pretty young heiresses pick up the dagger from the library floor and leave their fingerprints on it quite by accident. But from time to time she can really create a striking and original minor character, or present someone with a strong air of real life. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-82811257760071382062013-11-09T09:32:33.616-08:002013-11-09T09:32:33.616-08:00Read all of them but Wentworth. She's on my h...Read all of them but Wentworth. She's on my hit list later this month.<br /><br />Wynne as you well know is pretty much loathed by everyone for his lack of sense of humor and mostly very boring books. But I recently read THE FOURTH FINGER and found it to be not only gripping, but grotesquely lurid and...funny! But only funny in two places. So I think he really didn't have a sense of humor, something that I find one of the biggest mysteries of life. I continue to meet people who are utterly lacking in a sense of humor and don't get them at all.<br /><br />Adams is growing on me. He was a big romantic and enjoyed mixing love stories with criminal plots. J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.com