SUGGESTED READINGS
THE PURLOINED LETTER
READING 1
EDGAR ALLAN POE 'THE PURLOINED LETTER'
29/10/2013 19:15
THE PURLOINED LETTER
by Edgar Allan Poe
(1845)
Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. - Seneca.
At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18--, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little...
THE CIRCULAR STUDY
READING 2
ANNA KATHERINE GREEN 'THE CIRCULAR STUDY'
29/10/2013 19:22
https://librivox.org/the-circular-study-by-anna-katharine-green/
The Circular Study
Anna Katharine GREEN (1864 - 1935)
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is...
SHERLOCK HOLMES
READING 3
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 'ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES'
29/10/2013 19:41
ADVENTURE I. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
I.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one...
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
READING 4
Agatha Christies' 'Murder on the Orient Express'
29/10/2013 22:32
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Agatha Christie is the world’s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and...
WHOSE BODY?
READING 5
Dorothy L. Sayers' 'Whose Body?'
29/10/2013 21:53
WHOSE BODY?
By
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
To M. J.
DEAR JIM:
This book is your fault. If it had not been for your brutal insistence, Lord Peter would never have staggered through to the end of this enquiry. Pray consider that he thanks you with his accustomed suavity.
Yours ever,
D. L....
THE BIG SLEEP
READING 6
THE BIG SLEEP - CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
29/10/2013 22:25
Philip Marlowe
What The Big Sleep tells its readers about detective Philip Marlowe is that he is an honest detective in a corrupt world. He is full of integrity and honesty, a man who is willing to seek truth and work for a mere twenty-five dollars a day. In many ways he is even chaste. The best...
THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY
READING 7
MILNE'S 'THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY'
30/10/2013 18:49
A. A. Milne's The Red House Mystery
When you hear the name “A. A. Milne,” do you immediately think of Winnie-the-Pooh? Certainly Milne is most famous for the four children’s books featuring the lovable bear and his friend, Christopher Robin. During his lifetime, he was also known as...
READING 8
RAYMOND CHANDLER'S 'THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER' ESSAY
30/10/2013 19:14
Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder"(1950)
Fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic. Old-fashioned novels which now seem stilted and artificial to the point of burlesque did not appear that way to the people who first...