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Detective Fiction: From Victorian Sleuths to the Present
Written by M. Lee Alexander
Narrated by M. Lee Alexander
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From mysterious origins, through the Victorian sleuths and the "Golden Age" of the genre (the 1920s through the 1940s), and to the present day, detective fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers have consistently topped best-seller lists around the world. 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 writers such as Nevada Barr and Jonathan Kellerman.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The course has gotten me interested in the books I first read when Gail introduced me to detective fiction so long ago. I've paused the course after the first three classes and checked out from the public library the Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe original mystery books and started reading them. I'll pick up the course after reading the Poe (The Dupin Stories), the first Mrs. Marple and the first Hercule Poirot books.