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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.
Detections and Digressions:
Fredric Brown: Chronicler of Con Artists, Clowns, and Capitalist Excess
"Fredric Brown had...a powerful sense of the absurdly capricious cruelty of life"
The Many Faces of Nigel Morland, King of the Crime Fiction Fabulists
Morland was best known for his mediocre mysteries featuring the mercurial Mrs. Pym. The real story of his life is much stranger.
Ludicrous But Memorable: Agatha Christie’s The Big Four
Curtis Evans on the least-well-liked of Christie's Poirot novels
The Critic Did It: Howard Spring Takes on The Detection Club
When he included spoilers in one of his columns, Spring earned the enmity of an entire generation of crime novelists
Red, Hot and Blue: A Defense of Agatha Christie’s The Mystery of the Blue Train
On the unique setting and between-the-wars gilded set who inspired Christie's most underrated novel
Who Was Q. Patrick, the Golden Age Mystery Author?
Curtis Evans investigates one of the great, underappreciated writers of the Golden Age.
Fifteen Minutes a Day, Celestine: The Crime Writing Career of Nedra Tyre
Curtis Evans on the career of the genteel, Southern of writer of "Mouse in Eternity"
“My Mind Had Been Fired By Reading Cheap Detective Stories"
The colorful criminal escapades of the Gunn Brothers of San Francisco and Manhattan and the classic 1942 noir novel that came out of it all
A Bloody-Minded Business: Julian Symons’ Evolution as a Crime Fiction Critic
The seismic shifts in interpretation throughout the critic's long career say as much about society as they do about the individual
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