tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post6819063911403621180..comments2024-03-27T11:26:20.466-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Shock the Monkey: The Case of the Grinning Gorilla (1952), by Erle Stanley GardnerThe Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-50942017756997172172020-09-11T15:25:22.099-07:002020-09-11T15:25:22.099-07:00Ha-ha, now I must read it!Ha-ha, now I must read it!MaFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00652818851162632108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-27185881680514907832020-04-14T11:20:06.943-07:002020-04-14T11:20:06.943-07:00As you said, to think that ESG was 40 books into h...As you said, to think that ESG was 40 books into his series and was able to devise a fresh story and tone is extremely impressive. When I think of writers who are both prolific and remain masters of their craft, the list is slim. One of my favorites, Ruth Rendell (who also wrote as Barbara Vine), published more than 60 books. I read her last (Dark Corners) and thought it as sound as her first (From Doon with Death).Laurie Loewensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09472034573717556437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-68306138538966907912020-04-14T08:08:49.136-07:002020-04-14T08:08:49.136-07:00"The courtroom sequences come late in the boo..."The courtroom sequences come late in the book and are rather short, though entertaining as always."<br />Does Perry Mason get to cross-examine the gorilla?<br />Another detective story where apes - chimpanzees this time - play an important part is Peter Dickinson's "The Poison Oracle". <br />In Evelyn Waugh's unfinished "Work Suspended" the hero/narrator is a Golden Age detective story writer. One key point in one of his detective stories is that an orang-utan is left-handed. We never learn any more about it, but one of the ways I occupy my mind when I have insomnia is to try to reconstruct the story from that one clue.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com