tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post4758046132196171332..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Golden Anthologies 2: A Classic English Crime (1990), edited by Tim HealdThe Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-63562328317101027652014-10-21T13:36:12.717-07:002014-10-21T13:36:12.717-07:00Never come across this one Curtis - I do really li...Never come across this one Curtis - I do really like original anthologies of new work on a theme - you expect a few stories to fail, or get the tone wrong or just not quite engage enough, but if you get more than a 50% hit rate, that seems like a success to me, which is clearly the case here. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-62067187987062765122014-10-17T20:42:29.814-07:002014-10-17T20:42:29.814-07:00it was suggested that a clever Christie-related pu...<i>it was suggested that a clever Christie-related publishing scheme would be to commission someone to write Sven Hjerson detective novels, Sven Hjerson being the vegetarian Finnish detective of Agatha Christie's beloved mystery writer character, Ariadne Oliver</i><br /><br />What a damn' good idea! Hie thee with it to HarperCollins at once!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-83577705882209244712014-10-17T10:45:45.830-07:002014-10-17T10:45:45.830-07:00Yeah, I thought it was a bit condescending. Actua...Yeah, I thought it was a bit condescending. Actually there was quite a lot more going on during the GA that stereotypes would have us believe.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-26090811390423319002014-10-17T10:44:29.741-07:002014-10-17T10:44:29.741-07:00Could be! I got tired of Downton Abbey, I have to...Could be! I got tired of Downton Abbey, I have to admit, but loved Gosford Park.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-12643186238601093312014-10-17T09:17:07.076-07:002014-10-17T09:17:07.076-07:00I wonder if Julian Fellowes knew of the Barnard sh...I wonder if Julian Fellowes knew of the Barnard short story. It sounds an awful lot like <i>Gosford Park</i> which is basically the prototype for his much more successful TV series.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-28702836853671499522014-10-17T03:53:30.967-07:002014-10-17T03:53:30.967-07:00Tim Heald's remark that "modern crime wri...Tim Heald's remark that "modern crime writing has advanced in a number of ways" is the sort of thing that irritates me. Art and literature change, but I don't think they progress. Would anyone argue that drama has advanced since Shakespeare's day? Would anyone like to suggest a modern play that is better than Hamlet? Or more sophisticated?dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-65312585393633008042014-10-17T00:38:56.708-07:002014-10-17T00:38:56.708-07:00Nope, grimwig, just a mental slip on my part, now ...Nope, grimwig, just a mental slip on my part, now corrected! It's too much to expect that both Hjerson and Poirot would have been riding that funicular! ;)<br /><br />I wish Keating had written a whole series of Sven Hjerson tales. He gets more true Christie elements in this one story than Sophie Hannah does in the hundreds of pages of The Monogram Murders.<br /><br />Poirot is in the country house in Barnard's story, but we never see him, only hear what the servants say about him--very clever!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-73048648626020542652014-10-17T00:30:59.156-07:002014-10-17T00:30:59.156-07:00Sounds a good collection by and large; was a bit c...Sounds a good collection by and large; was a bit confused with your review of the Keating- is Poirot in it as well?grimwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06150168436753680867noreply@blogger.com