The Lerouge Case (Dodo Press): Well known novel from the French writer, novelist, and journalist, considered a pioneer of modern detective fiction.

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the British Library conference centre my name is Katherine Johnson I am the curator of the current folio space exhibition in the library murder in the library and eh-2-zed of crime fiction despite what the title of tonight's seminar if I can call it that is our exhibition doesn't claim to be a history it's a taster these are some odd things these are some interesting things these are some things you might like to think about I it wasn't the product of me just me as the curator it was actually a team of six people and it was rather unorthodox process we all compiled an alphabet of crime and they turned out to be radically different all six of them we then decided that we would meet consistently at three o'clock on Friday so we didn't walk over which item to choose for which letter we ended up sitting there till 7:30 until security throws out and we argued