Leigh Gaver Private Investigator

In sixth grade English (second semester), the class was assigned a “special” project. My teacher informed us that we were going to be writing a series of three short stories over the course of roughly five weeks (one week for brainstorming, and one week per story). Since all of the stories had to correlate with each other, I decided to write cliché, parodic detective noir. The star of my series was a “hard-boiled” sleuth named Leigh Gavera, whose appearance was heavily based on James Gordon from Batman. I had an A- in the class, so I figured the project would be a piece of cake. I did not care for writing, but I thought “How bad could this possibly be?” this question was quickly answered. Two weeks later I submitted the first installment, “Leigh Gavera: Private Investigator” to the teacher. The story followed Gavera as he was on a mission to bust McKees, the city’s most powerful crime boss. The story mostly involved Gavera going to various places looking for evidence, such as crime scenes from gang wars and mob-owned casinos, while goons chased after him to protect their boss. Gavera’s rival detective, …show more content…
Still staying with the parodic nature of the previous titles, “Bad Cop” was a story of police corruption (bribery and negligence, not racism). Gavera had to expose the corruption in the city’s police force, as one of the town’s crime bosses was bribing the force. I tried to add more character to Gavera, by making the story an internal conflict. Gavera was split between ignoring the growing problems, or laying down the law on his friends. A truce was made between Gavera and Arsely to work together (buddy cop movie style) to cut ties between the mob and the police. In the end, the assistant chief of police was convicted of destroying evidence of the mob’s crimes and the two sleuths returned to their rivalry. There was no sense of relief when I reached the