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MysteryWrite
A Reading
the Arts Series
Mysteries owe a debt to modern life – the urban, crime-filled, poverty-ridden, class distinctions that arose during the mid-1800s. The rise of large cities during the period came at a time when public reading was also on the rise. The public’s relatively new exposure to crime in their urban neighborhoods both fascinated and scared them, giving rise to the vilified and romanticized criminal and detective and a new literary genre, the detective/crime story/mystery.
Since this time, the genre has grown to include detectives from around the world, comic capers, and many other types of stories. MysteryWrite takes the best mystery short stories and breaks them down so participants can discuss them and learn what makes them so addictive. Scholars will work with participants at each session, determining what makes the stories in that session worthy and how the audience can compile their own devious characters, sinister settings, and surprise endings!
Sessions will include writing exercises. (Pick 3 or 5 themes)
The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock.
The Amateur Detective
Blind Date / Charles Boeckman / pg 63
With a Smile for the Ending / Lawrence Block / pg 337
An Interlude for Murder / Paul Tabori / pg 479
Death Overdue / Eleanor Daly Boylan / pg 494
A Real Live Murderer / Donald Honig / pg 536
The Hard-Boiled Detective
The Running Man / Bill Pronzini / pg 86
A Very Cautious Boy / Gilbert Ralston / pg 133
Undertaker, Please Drive Slowly / Ron Goulart / pg 163
Damon and Pythias and Delilah Brown / Rufus King / pg 255
Panther, Panther in the Night / Paul W. Fairman / pg 384
The Montevideo Squeeze / James Holding / pg 621
The Official Detective
Sadie When She Died / Ed McBain / pg 108
A Try for the Big Prize / Borden Deal / pg 141
Dead Duck / Lawrence Treat / pg 186
Come Back, Come Back… / Donald E. Westlake / pg 297
Nothing But Human Nature / Hillary Waugh / pg 367
Melee of Diamonds / Edward D. Hoch / pg 426
The Best-Friend Murder / Donald E. Westlake / pg 500
The Pursuer / Holly Roth / pg 562
The Criminals
Voice in the Night / Robert Colby / pg 153
Child’s Play / William Link and Richard Levinson / pg 220
Glory Hunter / Richard M. Ellis / pg 264
Warriors Farewell / Edward D. Hoch / pg 322
#8 / Jack Ritchie / pg 413
All the Needless Killing / Bryce Walton / pg 416
Pattern of Guilt / Helen Nielsen / pg 518
Dr. Apollo / Bryce Walton / pg 551
The Comedies of Crime
The Cost of Kent Castwell / Avram Davidson / pg 35
That Russian! / Jack Ritchie / pg 50
Never Shake the Family Tree / Donald E. Westlake / pg 172
Death by Misadventure / Wenzell Brown / pg 327
Murder Between Friends / Nedra Tyre / pg 602
Outside the Box
A Flower in Her Hair / Pauline C. Smith / pg 28
The Vietnam Circle / F. J. Kelly / pg 99
Television Country / Charlotte Edwards / pg 353
Murder, 1990 / C.B. Gilford / pg 374
One for the Crow / Mary Barrett / pg 439
White Moth / Margaret Chenoweth / pg 631
 Request this series online.
 This series is made possible, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a
state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting arts in DelawareFor additional information on arts activities in Delaware, visit
the Delaware Division
of the Arts homepage.
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