The Cloak & Dagger Literary Society @ Sharon Public Library
January 2017: Classic Mystery Fiction
"While it's a mistake to equate popularity with worth, endurance isn't the same thing as popularity, and as a genre the crime novel has endured for more than a century. Edgar Allan Poe usually receives the credit for writing the first detective story with the publication of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841. After Poe, there are faked police "memoirs" and intermittent bestsellers until-with Sherlock Holmes' initial appearance in the 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gives us the first really memorable fictional detective. Among the many reasons why the mystery has endured is a basic one: its form and movement together are a metaphor for the experience of reading. A reader is nothing if not a detective."
A list of classic mystery authors & their best-known series or characters begins on the right and continues at the bottom of the newsletter. Clicking on the author's name will bring you to their biography, while clicking on a series or character link will bring you to a bibliography of books. Happy mystery reading!
Upcoming Newsletter Releases
FEBRUARY Death Takes a Road Trip:
European Edition
MARCH St. Patrick Missed a Few Snakes:
Crime Fiction in Ireland
It's certain that, while compiling my list, I missed authors of note who fits this category. Please email me if you see any glaring omissions and I will add the author(s) in question, so that future readers will be informed!
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