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A Bit on Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Join Sam Tornio as he tries to sort out the gossip from the sleuthing in Agatha Christie’s novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a classic whodunnit set in the English countryside. Bibliography: Grella, G. (1970). Murder and Manners: The Formal Detective Novel. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, [online] 4(1), p.30. Available at: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Murder-and-Manners%3A-The-Formal-Detective-Novel-Grella/8538d6cc5fabf8936a625c77a481bacdbcda84ad [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Murder-and-Manners%3A-The-Formal-Detective-Novel-Grella/8538d6cc5fabf8936a625c77a481bacdbcda84ad] [Accessed 8 May 2020]. Shaw, M. and Vanacker, S. (1991). Reflecting on Miss Marple. [online] London: Routledge. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=etNyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT5&dq=reflecting+on+miss+marple&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifndm0lKXpAhVGPcAKHaRfD98Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=reflecting%20on%20miss%20marple&f=false [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=etNyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT5&dq=reflecting+on+miss+marple&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifndm0lKXpAhVGPcAKHaRfD98Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=reflecting%20on%20miss%20marple&f=false] [Accessed 8 May 2020]. Thompson, J. (1993). Fiction, Crime, and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism. [online] Urbana Illinois: University of Illinois Press. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AStYlqL8pKsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AStYlqL8pKsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false] [Accessed 8 May 2020]. Vermeule, B. (2006). Gossip and Literary Narrative. Philosophy and Literature, [online] 30(1), pp.102–117. Available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/199395 [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/199395] [Accessed 8 May 2020]. Tallon, Philip, and David Baggett, editors. The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes. University Press of Kentucky, 2012. JSTOR, https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Philosophy_of_Sherlock_Holmes.html?id=Fk3liJV6uuYC&redir_esc=y [https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Philosophy_of_Sherlock_Holmes.html?id=Fk3liJV6uuYC&redir_esc=y] Accessed 8 May 2020. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

A Bit on Stefan Zweig's "The Invisible Collection"

Join Sam Tornio as he discusses how Stefan Zweig's 1925 story about hyperinflation and resurrection in Weimar Germany might just help us get through the 2020 lockdown. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.