2016 Annual Conference • Detective Fiction • panel

New Approaches to Stories of Iconic Detectives: Holmes, Marlowe, and Columbo

New ways to examine iconic fictional detectives include papers on gender in Victorian England as depicted in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, the effect of Raymond Chandler’s English upbringing on his creation of Philip Marlowe, and a rhetorical analysis of the investigative style of TV’s Lieutenant Columbo.

Presentations

Anges Fatales: The Overlooked Heroines of Sherlock Holmes

Presenters

Nicola R Govocek

A “Long Goodbye” from Across the Pond: How Raymond Chandler’s British Ethos Inspired the Great American Novel

Presenters

Daniel Maloney

Police Investigation, Columbo Style: Rhetorical Inquiry, Audience Relationships, and the Inverted Mystery

Presenters

Christyne Berzsenyi

Session chairs

David C. Wright Jr.