2002 - Murder In The Mansion: The Historical Mystery

Leading literary scholar, Margaret Anne Doody, formerly of Vanderbilt University and currently Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Literature at Notre Dame, is also the author of Aristotle Detective and Aristotle and Poetic Justice (published in May in the UK). Her detective fiction has been translated into French, German, Italian, and (soon) Greek. Aristotele e il giavelloto fatale (Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin) has already been published to great acclaim in Italy.

One of the current stars of the mystery world, medieval historian Sharan Newman is the author of the acclaimed Catherine LeVendeur series, set in Medieval France, the first of which (Death Comes As Epiphany) won the Macavity Award as the best new mystery of 1993. Author of the Guinevere Trilogy and mystery fiction on the Kansas prairies during the 1890s, she has three times been nominated for the Agatha Award.

Panel Discussion with Margaret Doody, Sharan Newman, Michael E. Jackson (book reviewer, The Tennessean), Martha Kallstrom, Gael B. Stahl (Nashville Sherlockians).

Under the mischievous direction of actors/Belmont alums Clay Steakley, Susan Houston and Beth Eakin, you will become a character in a historical mystery—perhaps the victim, perhaps the detective, perhaps a key witness, perhaps the criminal.

Carnegie Foundation College Professor of the Year for Tennessee [2000-2001], one of whose most popular course offerings is Philosophy and Film, Mike Awalt will lead a discussion of the film version of Eco’s famous mystery novel.