For Thursday (3/9) and Tuesday (3/14)

For Thursday (3/9), finish reading The Decagon House Murders.

For Tuesday (3/14), read at least up to the end of Chapter 7 in Barbara Neely’s Blanche on the Lam.

Here’s your asynchronous event for this week:

In The Decagon House Murder, Ellery makes a strong argument that the best kind of detective narrative is the “chalet in a snowstorm” mystery.  In what ways is Blanche on the Lam a “chalet in a snowstorm” mystery of the kind that Ellery describes? In what ways is it not this kind of narrative?

Answer this question in no more than 500 words – – type up your response and bring it to class on Tuesday, March 14.