Margaret Doody





Margaret Doody

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January 01, 1939 in Canada

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Aka Margaret Anne Doody

Margaret Anne Doody (born 1939) is a professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame, and helped found the PhD in Literature Program at Notre Dame (http://www.nd.edu/~litprog). She served as its director from 2001-2007. Joseph Buttigieg has since become director.

Although historical detective stories are now a flourishing genre, with Steven Saylor 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 Bron...more


Average rating: 3.53 · 178 ratings · 19 reviews · 12 distinct works
Aristotle Detective
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1978 — 12 editions
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Aristotle and Poetic Justice
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Poison in Athens
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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Mysteries of Eleusis
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Aristotle and the Secrets o...
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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Aristotele e l'anello di br...
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003
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Aristotele e il giavellotto...
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3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2000
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Aristotele e i delitti d'Eg...
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010
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Aristotele e la favola dei ...
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012
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Gli Alchimisti
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980 — 2 editions
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Aristotle Detective Aristotele e il giavellotto... Aristotle and Poetic Justice Aristotele e l'anello di br... Poison in Athens
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3.53757225433526 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 173 ratings

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