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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 Many Sins of
Maurice E. Balk

Curtis Evans looks back on a man who was a preacher, producer, publisher, and plagiarist. And that's just the short version.

May 25, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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Whitey Bulger and The Cozy Crime Writer

On the surprising human ties that bound the Boston mobster to author Charlotte MacLeod.

April 20, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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Ashes in the Aspic: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s Life and Short Crime Fiction

"Elisabeth Sanxay Holding [wrote] fiction which dared to divulge unsavory truths about her society..."

March 16, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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“They just weren’t the kind of people for that”: The 1934 Smith Family Massacre in Demopolis, Alabama

On "an appalling family tragedy" that reappeared in a 1944 detective novel.

February 3, 2023  By Curtis Evans
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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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