Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
Three-day Workshop
Mysteries and Thrillers: Getting Started Building Your Private Eye
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Friday, May 7 | 6 to 9 p.m.

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MDC, Wolfson Campus

We will examine the development of private eyes in fiction using as examples works by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, the two MacDonalds (Ross and John D.), Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky. We will also cover the emergence of the ‘ethnic’ detective; the importance of place in private eye fiction; the changes that the genre has had to undergo to keep up with the times: computers vs. leg work; cell phones; texting; etc.
Submit a 250-word description of their ideal character for a private eye novel by April 15. These will be sent to all participants and workshopped during the first class.  

Facilitator
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera is the author of eight books, but is best known for those which feature the Cuban-American private investigator, Lupe Solano. She has just finished Miami Madam, her seventh book in the series, and is working on a stand-alone thriller set in New York City. Her novel One Hot Summer, a love story set in Miami, was made into a feature film for Lifetime Television.

Garcia-Aguilera, who has been a private investigator for the past twenty-one years, has been the recipient of many awards, including the Shamus for Havana Heat and the Flamingo for A Miracle in Paradise.

Date and Time
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Friday, May 7 | 6 to 9 p.m.

Want to register? Click here for instructions and registration form.

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.