Course Summary
The History of Mystery
Why do mysteries fascinate us?
Why has Sherlock Holmes continued to captivate readers generation after generation, while other fictional detectives of the Victorian period have been forgotten?
The 1920s and 30s are commonly known as the Golden Age of detective fiction
An American reaction, to the cosy conventionality of British murder mysteries, was the American hard-boiled school of crime writing
Over the decades, the detective story metamorphosed into the more general crime novel.
This has always been a genre that has attracted as many, if not more, women writers as men
Can you work out the culprit in this witty short story?