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DF Home, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Really Cool Stuff, Independent Reading Project Choices =Week 1: Origins of Detective Fiction:=

The Victorians, Poe and Conan Doyle
"I never guess. It is a shocking habit--destructive to the logical facility." --Sherlock Holmes to Watson in //The Sign of Four// (1890)

[|Van Dine's Rules for Writing Detective Fiction] [|Ronald Knox's Rules for Writing Detective Fiction] [|Raymond Chandler's Ten Commandments]

Short Stories: [|The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Poe] (1841) [|The Purloined Letter by Poe] (1844) [|The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Conan Doyle] (1891-2)

Start Here for Presentation Ideas and Independent Reading Choices:
 * Best Detective Fiction Writers**

Websites for Research: [|www.thrillingdetective.com] [|www.mostlyfiction.com]

Websites for Reviews: [|Publisher's Weekly] [|Kirkus Reviews]