The Passing Tramp

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

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Mothers Are Doing It for Themselves: Psycho (1959), by Robert Bloch

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Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed. -- Psycho  (1959), Robert Bloch NOTE: Spoile...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Crow's on the Cradle: Philip MacDonald's The White Crow (1928)

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Rockabye baby, the black and the white Somebody's baby was born for a fight Rockabye baby, the white and the black Somebody's baby i...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

"Murder!" He Rasped: The Rasp (1924), by Philip MacDonald

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"What do they call the thing ?" "Wood-rasp [answered Gethryn].  A file for wood." "If you love me, call me mister, ...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

A Sprig of Laurel: Philip MacDonald, Some Preliminary Biography and Bibliography

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Phillip MacDonald (1900-1980) in his early thirties at the time of his height of popularity as a crime writer British novelist and screenwri...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

The Adventure of the Two Collaborators: The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954), by John Dickson Carr and Adrian Conan Doyle

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With apologies to  J. M. Barrie 1952-53 was a tough time for John Dickson Carr , who in his mid-forties suffered from physical illness and o...
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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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