Detective Fiction : From Victorian Sleuths to the Present

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Call Number: BOCD 809.387 Al Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 6-week checkout	BOCD 809.387 Al Oversize	6-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact disc.
"14 lectures"--Container.
Mysterious origins -- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the Victorian Era -- The queen of crime: Agatha Christie and the Golden Age -- Gifted amateurs: academics and zoologists -- Private investigators and hard-boiled heroes -- Cops, cpaers, and police procedurals -- Spies among us: espionage and techno-thrillers -- In the teeth of the evidence: lawyers and legal eagles -- Medicine for murder: the medical mystery -- Probing the past: historical detective fiction -- Women of mystery: beyond female intuition -- International intrigue: detective fiction goes global -- Investigating identity: ethnic sleuths -- Regional sleuths and future trends in detective fiction.
Lecture given by M. Lee Alexander.
Professor M. Lee Alexander provides listeners with a lively discussion of groundbreaking authors from Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, to Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, and modern writes such as Nevada Barr and Jonathan Kellerman.

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