tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post7768743556711869552..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: A Life of Crime: Alice in Murderland, Alice Campbell, 1887-1955 (Alice Campbell's Mysteries Reissued by Dean Street Press)The Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-91640611013309226582022-08-14T22:32:52.836-07:002022-08-14T22:32:52.836-07:00...They Hunted a Fox, but I think the latter is in......They Hunted a Fox, but I think the latter is in the next group.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-31761579718697993412022-08-14T22:32:12.037-07:002022-08-14T22:32:12.037-07:00Among this first group maybe Desire to Kill, which...Among this first group maybe Desire to Kill, which I enjoyed a lot. I liked Water Weed a lot too, but it's longer and more novelistic. Flying Blind or The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-82546397446541944002022-08-14T21:49:21.245-07:002022-08-14T21:49:21.245-07:00Curtis - thanks for your tireless efforts to repri...Curtis - thanks for your tireless efforts to reprint lost authors from the Golden Age. I have ordered Heron's Mere as a first try with Mary Fitt. Which Alice Campbell reprint do you recommend I try to get a good impression of her work please?Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11945797301621244070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-86039497365501123512022-05-05T03:22:48.641-07:002022-05-05T03:22:48.641-07:00My purpose in life seems to be to get vintage myst...My purpose in life seems to be to get vintage mysteries reissued. I prefer print too, but oh! the storage.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-62846476284394382242022-05-05T03:21:12.511-07:002022-05-05T03:21:12.511-07:00I think the black and white illustrations give us ...I think the black and white illustrations give us a hint of Alice's hair color. Unless she was an albino, perhaps.<br /><br />https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Alice_par_John_Tenniel_30.pngThe Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-43856632361934708542022-05-05T03:01:42.388-07:002022-05-05T03:01:42.388-07:00I'll look for the book, though I'll probab...I'll look for the book, though I'll probably be on my third incarnation when I get there...<br />A quick check shows that Tenniel's original illustrations were b&w, so we can't tell hair colour, but she was blondified when they were coloured by someone else for The Nursery Alice. The interesting thing is that Carroll fussed about anything he could, but he didn't mind a blonde Alice there. Perhaps because both he and the Liddell family wanted to put a distance between the fictional and real Alices.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-91412249716200314992022-05-05T00:41:31.765-07:002022-05-05T00:41:31.765-07:00Thanks for the heads up for this and the Fitt nove...Thanks for the heads up for this and the Fitt novels. I've always preferred older mysteries (I think it's the style of writing) and will be glad to add these to my collection. Helpfully my wife also prefers the style of older crime fiction (although these days some of what's 'old' was published in out lifetime) so we get good value for money. Oh for a library of our own. Digital has solved some of the storage problem, but I still prefer print. I got into digital because of monthly visits ti the US. After a few flights with the same airline I'd seen all the films I'd wanted to, but enough books as carry on was a problem. I bought the Sony PRS 500 (IIRC) from Fry's in LA and have never been without an e-reader since. Great piece, as always!PDPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465776367973457810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-42230411110034946952022-05-04T08:36:30.113-07:002022-05-04T08:36:30.113-07:00It's got detail on how Carroll viewed his Alic...It's got detail on how Carroll viewed his Alice and the whole blondeing.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-47027878680753795972022-05-04T08:35:34.994-07:002022-05-04T08:35:34.994-07:00Good Lord, it's the glorious John Tenniel illu...Good Lord, it's the glorious John Tenniel illustrations, surely. Alice and her blonde hair is like Holmes and his deerstalker. <br /><br />https://mothersagainstturbines.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/alice-in-wonderland-cards.jpg<br /><br />https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/background/tenniel-and-his-illustrations/<br /><br />Check out the interesting book by Joanna Pitman, On Blondes.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-39287056910553808612022-05-04T06:29:54.504-07:002022-05-04T06:29:54.504-07:00"... her beautiful blonde hair. After a poin..."... her beautiful blonde hair. After a point I was reminded of inquisitive little Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"<br /><br />Carroll never mentions Alice's hair colour, and Alice Liddell, the original, had dark hair. I think Alice's blondness was an invention of film-makers.<br />Carroll must rival Shakespeare and A.E. Housman as a supplier of titles for crime novelists.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com