LIBRARY NOTES
B.J. Rahn
Murder in Faraway Places
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Whitridge Room; $40 for all three sessions (recommended); $15 per session
Human nature is the same all over the world, so crimes and crime solving occur worldwide. Detective fiction also attracts an international readersip. Whodunits set in faraway places offer evocative descriptions of foreign locales and interesting insights into the customs, values, attitudes, and employment of the local people.
The three sessions are:
Dr. B. J. Rahn teaches English literature at Hunter College. She has been teaching, researching, and writing about crime fiction for over two decades, and she leads detective walking tours in the U.K. and U.S.
Her articles appear in many journals and reference books, including The Armchair Detective, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, and
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing.
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