Lost detectives project
Claire Whitehead is very grateful to have been awarded £11,496 by the University’s Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund for Stage 2 of her ‘Lost Detectives’ project.
The project’s first stage involved the adaptation of Semyon Panov’s 1872 novel, Three Courts, or Murder During the Ball, into graphic-novel form and the production of 10 pages of proof-of-concept artwork, both by author-illustrator Carol Adlam, and the public exhibition of this artwork in St Salvator’s Quad in May-June 2019.
The second stage aims to develop the project in new and different directions with the production of three further scripts of 19th-century Russian crime novels:
- Nikolai Timofeev’s Notes of an Investigator (1872)
- Aleksandr Shkliarevskii’s The Tale of a Judicial Investigator (also 1872)
- Aleksandra Sokolova’s The Song Has Been Sung (1892).
It will also involve the recording of an eight-episode podcast series on issues devoted to adaptation, translation and crime fiction, and which will feature Claire and Carol and a host of guests. Finally, the plan is to stage three events, including the performance of one of the adapted crime novel scripts and the live recording of the final podcast episode in autumn 2020. Keep an eye on the project web site for more details in the upcoming weeks and months, and thanks to everyone for their help and support thus far.
The ‘Lost Detectives’ project was ‘Highly Commended’ in the Collaboration category at the University’s Public Engagement with Research Awards that were held on October 30th in the Byre Theatre.
