File containing P D James’ contributions to ‘Murder, Mystery and the Detective Story: A Three-Part Seminar in Creative Writing for undergraduate and graduate students’ held at Trinity College, Toronto, November 1987.
Typescript papers, as follows:
Paper 1: Brief History of the Detective Story;
Paper 2: Differences between the crime novel and the detective story or mystery;
[no paper number]: Detective Stories (Mysteries) - Why we Read Them;
Paper 3: Definitions: Types of Crime and Mystery Novels;
Paper 4: Setting;
Paper 5: The Viewpoint;
Paper 6: The First Chapter;
Paper 7: Plotting the Mystery;
Paper 8: Clue Making;
Paper 9: Dialogue.
The file also contains the following: syllabus for the seminar; suggested reading list for a Master Class on the Mystery held at the University of California, Irvine, including two of P D James’ works (Death of an Expert Witness and A Taste for Death) [no date]; and ‘My Choice of the Six Greatest Masters / Mistresses of the Detective Genre, selected by P D James’, one page typescript [no date but probably 1980s].