tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post373447988982478435..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: It's a Ruthless World: Cut Throat (1932), by Christopher BushThe Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-65161226643282156602018-05-11T14:52:59.191-07:002018-05-11T14:52:59.191-07:00And another interesting aspect is how much it dove...And another interesting aspect is how much it dovetails with modern events. We're doing a pretty amazing job of repeating between-the-wars history of late, too many people evidently not having learned any lessons from it. But then look at American primary school aptitude test results in history, what else would one expect?The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-46268722107233418792018-05-11T13:10:15.039-07:002018-05-11T13:10:15.039-07:00Yes, detective fiction was not really cut off from...Yes, detective fiction was not really cut off from the mainstream of literature even then. Mystery Authors did draw on events around them, just like authors of “straight” fiction.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-74646635446065174692018-05-11T13:07:43.266-07:002018-05-11T13:07:43.266-07:00Didn’t Agatha Christie lampoon one in Murder Is Ea...Didn’t Agatha Christie lampoon one in Murder Is Easy? I seem to recalll it so. <br /><br />You could do worse for a speechwriter than RK! It’s pithier than “fake news.”The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-77687055194757587482018-05-11T12:20:13.940-07:002018-05-11T12:20:13.940-07:00“What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming...“What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, but power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”<br />This phrase was provided by Baldwin's cousin Rudyard Kipling.<br /><br />The press barons provided targets for dozens of novelists - Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies is probably the best-remembered now.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-61223980140307651772018-05-11T07:49:38.299-07:002018-05-11T07:49:38.299-07:00The good thing - well, one of the good things - ab...The good thing - well, one of the good things - about the current GAD revival is how it challenges some well-entrenched clichés about the period, chief among them being that GAD writers had no interest in the social and political climate of the time. We both know that it is false but it has become received wisdow in the crime fiction community, so it's nice to have books like this one being reprinted. Xavierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05702919450638993709noreply@blogger.com