The Passing Tramp

The Passing Tramp: Wandering through the mystery genre, book by book.

Friday, September 29, 2017

The Murder Mansions of Mr. Scarlett: The Classic Golden Age Detective Novels of Roger Scarlett (Dorothy Blair and Evelyn Page)

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Murder among the Angells (1932) a devilishly difficult problem composed by a diabolically ingenious author  Roger Scarlett , author of...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958), aka ECR Lorac and Carol Carnac

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As ECR Lorac and Carol Carnac , Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958) was one of the reliable "second-string" of British writers of t...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Back in the Bushes: The Christopher Bush Detective Novels Reissued

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"Chris" (Christopher Bush)  in military dress  Things continue to move in vintage mystery news as we head into the fall of 20...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Baffoonery: Murder at Liberty Hall (1941), by Alan Clutton-Brock

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the "English race" at play: stoolball I have arranged with about half-a-dozen of the most intelligent [Cambridge] undergraduat...
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Saturday, September 9, 2017

Detective Fiction and the "Public School Man In Revolt"

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What I don't seem to cotton on to is the affectation of gentility which does not belong to the job, and which is in effect a subconsciou...
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Author of "Masters of the 'Humdrum' Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961" "Magisterial"--Michael Dirda "Edgar Committee, Mystery Writers of America, take note!"--Allen J. Hubin "This should be a certain Edgar nominee"--Jon L. Breen, Mystery Scene "Clues and Corpses: The Detective Fiction and Mystery Criticism of Todd Downing." "Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene" (editor and contributor) "The Spectrum of English Murder: The Detective Fiction of Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher and GDH and Margaret Cole" and the Edgar-nominated "Murder in the Closet: Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall" (editor and contributor)
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