The 1920s and 1930s are often referred to as the golden age of crime fiction. Authors such as G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Josephine Tey, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon shaped a form of crime fiction during this period that is still omnipresent today as a classic detective story.
Whether it's a mysterious missing person case in a British village, a corpse in the library of a secluded country estate or the slightly odd and at the same time (life-)wise investigators - every crime fiction fan knows them. This evening is all about the golden age of crime fiction, when literary critic Denis Scheck gives a unique insight into some selected texts in conversation with Klett-Cotta publisher Tom Kraushaar. Actor and Cologne Tatort detective Dietmar Bär will lend his incomparable voice to the texts. An absolute festival highlight!
An event in the "Immortally Dead" series, with the kind support of Kunststiftung NRW.
