1.- Introduction, Justification and Relevance of the Topic
- LOMCE - RD 1105, which modifies 1631: "express and justify feelings and describe specific and abstract aspects of topics as music, cinema, literature and cross curricular topics"
2.- Mystery Stories
Ghost stories, the Gothic genre and beyond
Origins: Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle
3.- American Detective Novels: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
Raymond Chandler
- The big Sleep - Long Goodbye - Farewell, my Lovely
Origins
Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
4.- British Detective Novels: P. D. James.
A woman
- A Mind to Murder - Shroud for a Nightingale
5.- The Consolidation of Detective Fiction in the world today
6.- Conclusion and Teaching Implications
LOMCE : "are able to understand and express themselves in one or more foreign languages in a suitable way".
7.- Bibliography
- Greenblatt, Stephen, Gen. Ed.: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Norton, New York, 2012