![]() I got lots of help and advice from supportive colleagues in Classics at the University College of Swansea, where I then worked. ![]() ![]() He is so unillusioned about human nature.” The idea did not go away, and about 3 weeks later I realized that “Someone” was not going to do it-it would be me. When I at last crawled into bed with a detective story, I found myself thinking “Someone should write a detective story with Aristotle as the Sherlock Homes. Margaret Doody: One spring evening in Oxford I was reading quickly through Aristotle’s Rhetoric, in preparation for talk with MA student later in the week. How did you get the idea of using detective Aristotle in the series of mystery stories? Giusy Randazzo: Professor Doody, your novels have an enormous success not only because they deal with gripping mystery stories but also because the reader feels culturally enriched from the reading who, at first, unconsciously becomes in almost no time at all a little expert of the Athenian daily life of the IVth Century A.D. ![]()
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