Title - Detective Fiction: the killer, the detective, and their world
Professor - J. Dennis Huston
Runtime - Six Hours
Language Variety- North American English
Genre- Lecture
Lecture Description
This eight lecture series from The Teaching Company explores the elements of the mystery novel and the different ways in which writers have presented the "eternal conflict between pursued and pursuer." Includes examinations of such novels as Agatha Christie's The murder of Roger Ackroyd and The pale horse, Dorothy Sayers' Unnatural death, Raymond Chandler's The big sleep, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon, and Lawrence Sanders' The First Deadly Sin.
