Literature

Works of Mystery and Detective Fiction

10

This story marks the debut of C. Auguste Dupin. The unnamed narrator begins by musing on the unique mental challenges presented by the games of chess and whist. Name this story by Edgar Allen Poe.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

10

The book Murder on the Orient Express features Christie’s popular Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. This story was published in 1934. Name the author of this book and the book, And Then There Were None, published in 1940.

Agatha Christie

10

This novel is published in 1902, was the first Holmes story to appear after “The Final Problem.” what is the name of this book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

The Hound of the Baskervilles

15

Wilkie Collins. Rachel Verinder’s 18th birthday party is marred by the theft of this book.This book is named after a sacred gem plundered from India. What is the name of this book published in 1868?

The Moonstone

15

In this book Wealthy patriarch General Sternwood hires private eye Philip Marlowe to help his daughter Carmen. This book was published in 1939. What is the name of the book written by Raymond Chandler.

The Big Sleep

African American authors

10

This author is best known for his novel Invisible Man, whose unnamed narrator joins a political group called the Brotherhood. This author was born in 1919 and died in 1994. Name this author whose unfinished second novel was published posthumously in a long version called Three Days Before the Shooting… and a short version called Juneteenth?

Ralph Ellison

15

This African American author was a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. His poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” invokes world rivers like the Euphrates and the Congo. What is the name of this author who wrote the poem “Harlem,” which asks “What happens to a dream deferred?

Langston Hughes

15

This author won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer for her novel The Color Purple.

Alice Walker