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‘Kills & Thrills’ — Mystery and Crime Day 2019
Date & Time
November 18, 2019 - 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Whether you love a classic detective mystery, historical crime or a good thriller, you’ll find plenty of murder and duplicity on offer at our Kills & Thrills Mystery and Crime Special Event
Entry (gives access to all events)
$20 SMSA Members $30 Non-Members
Everyone Welcome
Bookings have now closed. Tickets will be available at the door on a First-Come, First-Served basis, cash only.
The Line Up
The entry fee gives you access to the whole line up featuring Michael Wilding, Gabrielle Lord, Barry Maitland and Meg Keneally. Pre-registration for each session is essential.
Session A Panel Discussion: Chekov’s Guns, McGuffins & Red Herrings — The Tropes of Crime Writing
Session B Film Screening: Sunset Blvd (1950) OR
Session C Crime Writing Seminar: Playing with the Past — Historical Crime Writing
Session D Trivia Tournament
Super Sleuths Scavenger Hunt
The Line Up
Monday, 18 November 2019
SESSION A PANEL DISCUSSION
Chekov’s Guns, McGuffins and Red Herrings: The Tropes of Crime Writing Michael Wilding, Gabrielle Lord and Barry Maitland
10:00-11:30am in the Tom Keneally Centre
Providing touchstones for readers, tropes like ‘the butler did it’ or the alcoholic detective commonly crop up in stories because they are universally relatable. Include too many tropes, though, or use one that is too tired and the writer veers towards cliche.
Michael Wilding, Gabrielle Lord and Barry Maitland discuss the changing tropes of crime writing and how to revitalise and use them to your advantage.
Break from 11:30am – 12:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.
SESSION B FILM SCREENING
SESSION C CRIME WRITING SEMINAR
Sunset Blvd (1950) Stars William Holden and Gloria Swansen.
12:30-2:30pm in the Mitchell Theatre
Unsuccessful screenwriter Joe Gillis is found dead face-down in a swimming pool belonging to the retired movie star, Norma Desmond. The dead man narrates the events leading to his death, making the audience the ersatz detectives in his murder case.
Playing with the Past: Writing Historical Crime Meg Keneally
12:30-2:30pm in the TKC
Meg Keneally discusses the challenges of writing historical crime, including creating period appropriate characters who are relatable and conveying historical information without giving a history lesson.
Test your Mystery & Crime knowledge to win a fabulous mystery prize to the value of $100. You’ll be answering questions – with plenty of clues – created by volunteers from our Mystery & Crime and Murder on a Monday Reading Groups. Please note: Individual entries only. No teams.
Starts on Monday, 11 November for registered Kills & Thrills attendees. Submit your entries by 12:30pm on Monday, 18th November in the Library or at the Panel Discussion.
Win a fabulous mystery prize to the value of $100 by exploring the SMSA Library and our extensive Mystery and Crime collection. Solve the clues and find the mystery books for your chance to win! The clues will be released on the morning of Monday, 11 November. Stay tuned!
The competition will be drawn in the Trivia Session
Cover Up! Mystery & Crime Novel Display
All Day in the SMSA Library The Library will feature displays of some of our members’ favourite authors, hard-to-get classics and new discoveries in the genre.
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