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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.
The Many Sins of
Whitey Bulger and The Cozy Crime Writer
On the surprising human ties that bound the Boston mobster to author Charlotte MacLeod.
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..."
“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.
The Literary Blood Feud between Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald
Or, The Way Some Crime Writers Decry...
Alice in Murderland: On Crime Writer Alice Campbell
Meet Alice Dorothy Ormond Campbell, mistress of the atmospheric mystery.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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