Detective Fiction: The Killer, The Detective, and Their World

8 lectures ~45 min each

Lecture 1: The English Detective Novel: Its Crimes and Conventions
Lecture 2: Agatha Christie: The Art of Ratiocination and Misdirection-
Lecture 3: Agatha Christie: The Limits of the Form
Lecture 4: The Killer and the Detective: Uneasy Distinctions
Lecture 5: The American Detective Novel: A Walk Down Mean Streets
Lecture 6: Dashiell Hammett: The Morally Ambiguous Hero in a Morally Corrupt World
Lecture 7: Raymond Chandler: The Knight in the Perilous City
Lecture 8: The Serial Killer: Madness and Mayhem