Crime Craft: “The Mistress of Misdirection: Agatha Christie Through the Novelist’s and Scholar’s Eye”
May 19 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Please join host Kate Hohl for a special Crime Craft celebrating National Mystery Month on Tuesday, May 19, at 6:00 p.m. EST for the May Crime Craft: “The Mistress of Misdirection: Agatha Christie Through the Novelist’s and Scholar’s Eye” with authors Lori Rader-Day and Dr. Michelle M. Klazmer!
Zoom meeting link:
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Lori Rader-Day is the USA Today bestselling author of eight novels, including Wreck Your Heart, The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, and Under a Dark Sky. She has been nominated for crime fiction’s highest award, the Edgar Award, and has won the Mary Higgins Clark Award, the Agatha Award, three Anthony Awards, and an Indiana Author Award. Lori is a former national president of Sisters in Crime
and a former national board member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Chicago, where she cochairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. Visit her at www.LoriRaderDay.com.
and a former national board member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Chicago, where she cochairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. Visit her at www.LoriRaderDay.com.
Michelle M. Kazmer, MLS, PhD, is dean of the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Since 2014, Kazmer has maintained a research agenda applying information science theories to Golden Age detective fiction focused on Agatha Christie. She has written about information behavior in Agatha Christie’s Parker Pyne short stories; the character of Jessica Fletcher from the television series Murder, She Wrote in comparison with Christie’s Jane Marple; and comparisons between Archie Goodwin from Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries wand Arthur Hastings from Christie’s Poirot stories. She has published book chapters about information behavior in the Miss Marple novels and about clues as information objects in Agatha Christie’s novels, novellas, and short stories.
Dr. Kazmer was on the team of researchers who developed the script for the BBC Maestro course Agatha Christie on Writing. She holds a PhD from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.
We look forward to seeing you there!