Join Mike McCartney, award-winning former teacher and department chair, for a three-part class on the history of The British Mystery Novel, one of literature’s most popular subgenres. We’ll look with particular care at the most popular of the so-called “Golden Age” characters, including Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey, and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. We’ll examine how the genre grew out of the Gothic Novel, what each author’s specific flair brought to the form, and why these novels continue to be so beloved today.

Mike McCartney currently works as the Circulation Supervisor of Eldredge Library. He received his B.A. from Moravian University and his M.A. from Middlebury College, and has previously studied at Oxford Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Presented by the Friends of Snow Library. To register or for more information, visit https://friendsofsnowlibrary.org/lifetime-learning-program/.