(September 19, 2023 at 1:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I have to wonder why Holmes’ exploits were included in detective ‘fiction’.
Boru
The course started with Murders in the Rue Morgue, which set out a lot of the tropes of the genre - locked room, red herrings, sly investigator, plot twists. Purloined letter was next, followed by The Moonstone. Then some Holmes before getting into the hard boiled Hammett/Spade tropes and ended with the Drowning Pool and Barbarous Coast in the Archer series by MacDonald. Fun course.
Mosely's style is more an ensemble cast of characters that flow in and out of the stories. The stories examine the culture of LA in the post WWII era (Little Green is set in 1967 and looks at the hippie/biker subcultures). Michael Boatman performs several of the audiobooks and is excellent at changing from character to character.
