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Murder in Three Courses
1st Wednesday of every month
(2/1/12 to 4/4/12)
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6:00pm |
Address: |
Covington Branch Library
310 W. 21st Avenue
Covington, LA |
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985-893-6280 |
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www.sttammany.lib.la.us |
Organization: |
St. Tammany Parish Library |
Admission: |
free - registration is recommended |
The St. Tammany Parish Library presents a three-part exploration of the crime fiction genre with host, local journalist and television producer, Terri Landry. The program will be offered at the Covington Branch Library on Wednesday evenings, February 1, March 7, and April 4, 2012, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Each Wednesday session will include a crime fiction bibliography and a mystery solving contest with book prizes. The first week’s bibliography will be available at the following link: The last session April 4, will include a crime fiction book exchange.
Our host for “Mystery on the Menu”, St. Tammany Farmer columnist and Pathfinder Award winner, Terri Landry, has worked since 1978 as a television writer and producer for network, cable and public television. While employed at WYES-TV, Ms. Landry served variously as associate producer, producer, and writer of numerous music specials, documentaries, and cooking series, most notably GREAT CHEFS. Her most recent series is CHEF JOHN BESH’S NEW ORLEANS, which is currently airing on public television stations across the nation.
With WYES as a sponsor, Landry wrote and produced four documentaries about various New Orleans ethnic groups. In 2002 she won best documentary from the New Orleans Press Club for NORTHSHORE STORIES, an hour-long look at the people and history of St. Tammany Parish. Ms. Landry is a lifelong fan of crime fiction and is a 20-year member of Sisters in Crime, an organization for mystery writers, scholars and readers.
The sessions are free and open to the public, and registration is recommended. Seating space is limited to adults. Please stop by the Covington Branch, 310 West 21stAvenue, or call 985- 893-6280 to register.
course, meet the caterers, quilters, gardeners, pet owners and other amateur sleuths who stumble over dead bodies on a regular basis in today’s lifestyle murder novels. Crime-solving and chocolate truffles go hand in hand in this lighthearted sub-genre. The April 4 session will include discussion about the importance of place for New Orleans and Southern mystery writers. . Grab a trench coat and fedora for this look at hard-boiled detective fiction. Find out the whydunit and the howtheydunit of police procedurals, thrillers and spy novels.first course with a discussion on the history of the whodunit and the Golden Age of English murder mysteries. Fans of locked room mysteries and romantic suspense won’t want to miss this “puzzling” book talk on Feb. 1.
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