Detective fiction

Since the mystery genre’s first detective was introduced by Edgar Allen Poe in 1841, the problem solving, puzzling, pieces of writing in the mystery genre have attracted a large quantity of people towards this genre. As time goes on, individuals started to look for more complex, intricate literature, but compiling most of the mystery genre pieces together, you will see various commonalities amongst them all. I am going to be analyzing and explaining how, The Fifth Floor, meets the key components…

Holmes was written to get rid of guilty conscience the accident with the acid and the body, which we are getting told about in ‘The acid test’. The text “The engineer’s Thumb” is about Sherlock Holmes, who is the very intelligent and incredible detective, who can find the solution to almost any case. The way Sherlock Holmes is described is like a hero and an unnatural person. Arthur Conan Doyle described Sherlock Holmes the way, that he wanted to be as a young medical student at the Old College.…

I was addicted to Edgar Allan Poe's fantastic world spontaneously when I read his fictions. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809. He has many literary classics such as “The Tell-Tale Heart”. His short stories mainly focus on murder, bloody violence, and even supernatural events. The Black Cat is a short story and there were four main characters including the man, his wife, and two black cats. This story is about the man is a murder who kill the first cat and his wife. He had a large,…

The hard-boiled detective, in noir tradition, is typically depicted as a lone wolf figure, one that upholds morality while balancing the corruption inherent in his line of work. He could be defined by his sexual potency, just as much as by his denial of pleasure. Raymond Chandler, in his 1950 essay, The Simple Art of Murder, outlines this archetype, with an authority appropriate to his foundational authorship. Chandler writes, “He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a…

The first hard-boiled mystery author was Raymond Chandler himself. Stimulating mysteries generated by Raymond Chandler included his hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe. A narrative called “Killer in the Rain” was Chandler’s fourth published story, yet it intensified Marlowe’s character despite the fact it was early in the Marlowe series. Additionally, the majority of Chandler’s pieces were acknowledged…

Moving on to the appearance of detective genre on the screen, Maloney claims that filming in the early 1900s was rather basic, as of being almost dependent on images and visual elements. The actors had to rely on their costumes, facial expressions and the set to be able to get the message across to the audience. After 1903 and 1906 the film industry flourished, describes Maloney, and new techniques and equipment such as the mobile camera, the close-up and the editing of the films was introduced.…

The Usual Suspects is a Neo-Noir as it shares some of the Film Noir characteristics. Film Noir often deals with moral corruption, and moral corruption is very much present in The Usual Suspects. Dean Keaton is an ex-cop who lived a life of crime and faked his own death to avoid a criminal trial. The main villain, Keyser Soze, is a criminal who killed his own family to prove to a rival gang how merciless he can be. For example, the men robs a taxi that is being used by corrupt NYPD to escort…

Mystery, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is “something hard to understand or explain.” This definition embodies the dilemma in the case of Marilyn Monroe. Her death touched the hearts of many American fans, as well as, initiated curiosity in their minds. The mystery behind Monroe’s death can be summed up in two theories: Suicide and murder. Marilyn lived a glamorous movie-star’s life, with that comes the constant gaze of the public eye, which in turn, results in many theories relating to her…

The Private Detective On the top of high mountain of a town, a detached house surrounded by wide green field which is vintage, its color is very attractive which flash to people eyes make everyone stop for it beauty, it always stand still as a new building although it had been build over 100 years and no one residence there for a very long time and no one ready to step in though specific area as there is a story behind it. People said whoever step in though the area, they will disappear in 3…

Follow the Sherlock trail across London Since the time we are born we have many interesting stories circulating our world but what catches to the whims and fancies of our minds is the mystical world of Sherlock Homes a character from the creations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings. The character has gone through a multitude of incarnations over the last couple of years. During the recent times in one of the BBC series Sherlock which showcased some of the famous cases that clearly pictured…