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Book club- detectives!

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Time: April 23, 2013 from 8pm to 10pm
Location: Grandpa's
Street: Xikang HutongTheThe
City/Town: The Chun - sunshine city
Event Type: discussion, art, literature
Organized By: Arts and Letters
Latest Activity: Apr 23, 2013

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Our next book club meeting will look at the whole genre of detective fiction - from Edgar Alan Poe to the present

The idea is that we choose various writers and look at their approach.
Please read any three of the stories - they are all short and be ready to tell us what you think!

Just short stories so we can easily read them

Details of the writers will appear later but at the moment we have. :

Edagar Alan Poe - the Purloined Letter
http://poestories.com/read/purloined

Conan- Doyle - The Musgrave ritual
http://wonderfulstoriesonline.blogspot.com/2007/10/musgrave-ritual.html

G.k.Chesterton - the Blue Cross
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/chesterton/gk/c52fb/chapter1.html#chapter1

Raymond Chandler - I'll be waiting
http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2010/12/i-be-waiting.html

Damon Runyon - breach of Promise
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks11/1100651h.html
And more!

George Simenon - The House of Anxiety
http://www.trussel.com/maig/maison.htm

Saki - The Open Window
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/OpeWin.shtml

We will be posting links to the stories soon and keep you updated on the event

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Comment by Richard Roman on April 23, 2013 at 23:29: Great evening and thanks to everyone who came!

We looked at the works of Poe, Conan- Doyle, Raymond Chandler, GK Chesterton,, Damon Runyon and Saki- a wonderful bunch of writers!

Juan is cogitating on our next book .

Details to be announced soon!

Comment by Richard Roman on April 22, 2013 at 17:36: Ok rose. Will start with Holmes and then get on to the others after 8.30

Comment by Steve mellow on April 22, 2013 at 15:37: I have read: g.k.Chesterton, Damon Runyon and Saki.look forward to the discussion.

Comment by Rosanna Leggat on April 22, 2013 at 13:55: right have finally got round to reading the stories but am certainly going to be late tomorrow - try to hold off the really clever stuff til 8.30, or do the conan doyle one first, as i can't get it to open so haven't read that one ^-^

Comment by Richard Roman on April 11, 2013 at 15:48: We now have Seven short stories to choose from!

Comment by Richard Roman on April 3, 2013 at 15:43: Please read any three of the above - they are all short and be ready to tell us what you think!

Comment by Jack Field on March 13, 2013 at 14:18: Christie's Poirot is such an eccentric character, he reminds me a bit of a certain spaniard living amoung us. i dont know.

Comment by Richard Roman on March 12, 2013 at 20:50: What would be great is if everyone here could maybe suggest a great dbetective writer(their favourite?)and be prepared to tell us about them!