"The game is afoot"! (both in print and in film)

with Holmes, Lord Peter, Father Brown, C. Auguste Dupin, Marlowe, Spade, Walker, McCone, Easy Rawlins, and many others.
                                       
Fall Semester 2008
English 216: Detective Fiction
Wednesday Evening
(Section 11589)
 

We will trace the development of the detective story in fiction from its beginnings with Edgar Allan Poe up to contemporary writers such as Walter Mosley, Loren Estleman, and Dana Stabenow.  Along the way we will read and discuss Conan Doyle, Chesterton, Christie, Hammett, Chandler, and many others.

The course will be discussion-oriented and welcomes both those new to the genre and those who have "read everything"!