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Curtis Evans

Curtis Evans
Curtis Evans is the author of Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery and The Spectrum of English Murder and the editor of Clues and Corpses: The Detective Fiction and Mystery Criticism of Todd Downing, Mysteries Unlocked: Essays in Honor of Douglas G. Greene and the Edgar nominated Murder in the Closet: Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall. He blogs at The Passing Tramp.


The Literary Blood Feud between Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald

Or, The Way Some Crime Writers Decry...

October 7, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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Alice in Murderland: On Crime Writer Alice Campbell

Meet Alice Dorothy Ormond Campbell, mistress of the atmospheric mystery.

September 28, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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The Creative Life and Death of Bruce Montgomery, aka Edmund Crispin

Music composer by day, crime writer by night, bon vivant in his youth, and reclusive alcoholic in his twilight...

August 12, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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Milton Propper: Scion and Imitator of the Golden Age Mystery, Pioneer of the Procedural

Was Milton Propper's writing politically conservative, New Deal liberal, or simply in imitation of his peers?

July 22, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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Death Goes Drag: How the Queer Experiences of Mystery Writers Rufus King and Clifford Orr Influenced Their Golden Age Detective Fiction

Skilled at switching gender roles in masquerade, King and Orr translated their college drag experiences into queer-coded fiction.

June 23, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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The Charming Mid-Century Murder Mysteries and Rich Interior Life of Edith Howie

Howie's sleuths in her well-received proto-cozy crime novels always ended up together, but she herself stayed proudly single.

April 21, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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The Life and Times of John Street, aka John Rhode, aka Vintage Mystery’s Master of Murder Means

Through decades and hundreds of novels, the man was never at a loss for a good plot.

January 27, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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Do People Really Know What They Think They Know about Cornell Woolrich?

Biographies have characterized Cornell Woolrich as a self-hating gay man who mistreated women and was far too close to his mother. The truth is much more complicated.

January 10, 2022  By Curtis Evans
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Making Good out of Murder: On Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, Crime Reporters and Crime Writers

In the 1930s, crime reporters and spouses Bristow and Manning turned their New Orleans crime beat into fertile fodder for fiction.

November 18, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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The Detection Club and the Mid-Century Fight over “Fair Play” in Crime Fiction

While the club clung to pure detection as a prerequisite for admission, members' own tastes were far more divided.

October 22, 2021  By Curtis Evans
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