Margaret Doody
Encyclopedia
Margaret Anne Doody is a professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame
. She helped found the PhD in Literature Program at Notre Dame, and served as its director from 2001-2007.
and Lindsey Davis
being particularly prominent in the field of detective stories set in classical antiquity, back in 1978, when Aristotle Detective was first published, Doody was something of a pioneer in the genre. Recently she has added four more to the series featuring Aristotle
as a 4th Century B.C. detective. There is also a novella, Anello di bronzo (Ring of Bronze), currently available only in Italian.
Doody's "Aristotle" books are published in Italy by Sellerio editore, which also produced a translation of The Alchemists. In France the mystery novels are published by 10/18. They are also available in Spanish, Portuguese and Greek; individual novels have recently appeared in Polish and Russian. The first "Aristotle" novel has also been published in German.
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
. She helped found the PhD in Literature Program at Notre Dame, and served as its director from 2001-2007.
Fiction writing
Although historical detective stories are now a flourishing genre, with Steven SaylorSteven Saylor
Steven Saylor is an American author of historical novels. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and Classics....
and Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.-Biography:...
being particularly prominent in the field of detective stories set in classical antiquity, back in 1978, when Aristotle Detective was first published, Doody was something of a pioneer in the genre. Recently she has added four more to the series featuring Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
as a 4th Century B.C. detective. There is also a novella, Anello di bronzo (Ring of Bronze), currently available only in Italian.
Doody's "Aristotle" books are published in Italy by Sellerio editore, which also produced a translation of The Alchemists. In France the mystery novels are published by 10/18. They are also available in Spanish, Portuguese and Greek; individual novels have recently appeared in Polish and Russian. The first "Aristotle" novel has also been published in German.
The Aristotle series
- 1978 - Aristotle Detective
- 1980 - Aristotle and the Fatal Javelin
- 2000 - Aristotle and the Poetic Justice
- 2002 - Aristotle and the Mystery of Life (also published as Aristotle and the Secrets of Life)
- 2003 - Aristotle and the Ring of Bronze
- 2004 - Poison in Athens
- 2005 - Mysteries of Eleusis
- 2010 - Aristotle and the Egyptian Murders
Academic books
- A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson (1974)
- The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered (1985)
- Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (1996)
- The True Story of the Novel (2000)
- Tropic of Venice (2007)