"This whole episode is going to get a little absurd and over-theorized," says Malcolm Gladwell. "I've chosen to speak about crime novels and mysteries because I'm addicted to them." The author's daughter, 18 months old, spends a lot of time in a playpen near the bookcase where he keeps his thrillers.
Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, recorded at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. Malcolm talks about a totally real thing he made up—a taxonomy of the modern mystery story—with a focus on murder mysteries and police procedurals. From Dragnet, to John Grisham, to Sherlock Holmes, it's all in there...and all connected to how we view real policing.
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