Taxonomy of the Modern Mystery Story

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Pushing.
0:12.0	Hello, hello everyone. Malcolm Gladwell here.
0:15.0	We're continuing our build-up to the main event in this season of Revision's History,
0:19.0	which is a mini-series on guns.
0:22.0	Six parts, beginning August 31st,
0:25.0	which is some of my favorite work that we've ever done a Revision's History.
0:31.0	So please put that on your calendar.
0:33.0	And if you want to binge-listen to it,
0:35.0	early, without any ads,
0:37.0	go to pushkin.fm slash plus
0:40.0	and sign up for a pushkin subscription.
0:44.0	Anyway, to get you in the mood for that series,
0:46.0	which I will say right now goes in some very strange directions,
0:50.0	I thought I'd give you this.
0:52.0	It's a speech I gave at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.
0:58.0	I asked the organizers if I could do an old-fashioned lecture on murder mysteries
1:03.0	and police procedures, which I have been obsessed with ever since my dad read Sherlock Holmes' short stories
1:09.0	to me and my brothers when we were kids.
1:12.0	They said, sure. And I said, oh my god.
1:16.0	So, picture-packed auditorium.
1:19.0	Everyone has book bags and while they're waiting, they're reading books.
1:22.0	They're not on their phones.
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