Detective fiction

lead characters of the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series of detective thriller novels by Laurie R. King. The two characters made their first appearance in the debut novel of the series The Bookkeepers’ Apprentice that was first published in 1994. Mary Russell is a young woman who stumbles into the legendary Sherlock Holmes in 1915 to start a brilliant mystery series. The series of novels begins in 1915 with the world famous detective Holmes enjoying his retirement and farming bees when he…

Falcon by John Huston are iconic in the detective genre for reinventing what it really means to be a detective in the world of literature. Their main characters are a far cry from the Sherlock Holmes and the Philo Vance type of private eye who never make any mistakes and always get the better of the villain. Instead, their detectives are gritty, hardened, and deeply flawed. However, one detective is more honourable and moral than the other. Chandler’s detective, Philip Marlowe, has been…

The Thesis of the Baskervilles Every day, cases happen in the detective department of a police station. Nobody knows whether the mysteries will be solved or will be known as a mystery forever. Detective skills date back to the 1800’s and people before that most likely used clues to solve mysteries. But even a detective’s assistant can be more important than the officer himself. In the book The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson, a detective’s assistant, is set off to…

Can all information be uncovered by the science of deduction? Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective who works to prove that it can. Sherlock has the extraordinary ability to reveal characteristics of strangers, simply by observing what most people fail to notice. His skills are expressed in literature, A Study in Scarlet, and motion picture, “A Study in Pink”. Both of these storylines follow Holmes and his assistant as they expose the clues behind a suspicious murder. The passage and show…

Suspense can be defined in many different ways. Either it is a buildup of tension, a moment with high anxiety for what will happen next, or some other way you may define it yourself. Agatha Christie knew the definition of suspense very well, and used it all the time in her many, many mystery novels, including And Then There Were None. One way Christie was able to incorporate suspense in And Then There Were None was with a process of elimination of the characters. Since the first two deaths, of…

On Tuesday night the viewers of “NCIS: New Orleans” got a taste of the city along with a thrilling ride to solve a crime. When a member of the prestigious United States Navy Band is murdered in her home, the sole witness was a child. He didn’t get a good look at his aunt’s killer, but he had clues that offered up a way to solve the murder. A prodigy trombone player, the young man revealed the man who attacked his killer had a unique ringtone and he could play it note-for-note just from hearing…

The story “The Dying Detective”by Author Conant Doyle and “ Invitation to a Murder” by Josh Patcher, each story is unique and different. Although the stories are different they both share several similarities. For example, Each story contains situational irony. In the story “The dying Detective” Sherlock was mindful that he was faking his illness. Sherlock faking his illness is situational irony since his sickness was extremely practical, which caused the readers to conclude that he was…

Summary In his novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon begins the novel out by providing us details and information about Christopher Boone. Christopher is the novel’s protagonist who is a young autistic boy who lives with his father in Swindon. Christopher found his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, dead with a garden fork inside of him. The dog belongs to Mrs. Shears. The police arrived at Mrs. Shears’ house and questioned Christopher about the incident with the dog.…

crime has been around ever since crime was out on the streets. Detectives try help the police solve cases from murder to robbers to thieves, but each case as important as the one before. Some detectives just glide by the police not doing anything, but some stand out. Of all detectives, fictional and real, the most famous of all by far is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, Sherlock Holmes. Who created Sherlock? This famous fictional detective started to spread in 1887, when the first book was…

In a land where myths and legends abound, there is a blind man who sees everything and the one who sees is blinded, he cannot see the truth that lies in his reflection. Sophocles writes a great detective story in Oedipus Rex. Oedipus is a hero that turns to be a detective king, which turns into a tragic hero through hamartia. “Although hamartia is often translated as ‘tragic flaw,’ there is a debate among scholars as to the nature and scale of the error that causes a tragic hero’s downfall.…