Online: Dr. Mark Schenker, A Brief Introduction to Detective Fiction

Dr. Mark Schenker, formerly of Yale College, returns to the Ridgefield Library for a three-part lecture series on Literary Detectives. Programs will be online via Zoom, and Mark will be available following each lecture for questions and comments from patrons who can contact him by email. No advance reading is required, but participants who wish to do so will have one or more relevant titles identified in the descriptions of each lecture. We’ll look at the cultural conditions that gave rise to