Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives

Period of Performance

4/1/1986 - 9/30/1987

Funding Totals

$111,084.00 (approved)
$111,084.00 (awarded)


The Art of the Mystery: An Historical Approach

FAIN: GL-20674-86

Southern Connecticut Library Council (Wallingford, CT 06492-3720)
Susan E. Davidson (Project Director: September 1985 to October 1990)

To support a series of book discussion programs in 20 Connecticut libraries using a critical, comparative, and historical approach to the reading and analysis of detective fiction. Books by such authors as Poe, Doyle, Christie, Stout, Chesterton, and Sayers have been selected for the project.