Detective fiction

In Poe’s detective stories “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter,” Dupin serves as a model of rational deduction. Dupin seems to have almost supernatural deductive ability in solving mysteries. Since Dupin’s use of reason to solve mysteries is central to these stories, determining Poe’s views on the nature of reasoning is critical to an understanding of their meaning. Hurh (2012) argues that the description of Dupin’s dual nature of “the creative and the resolvent” (Poe,…

Poe has the readers thinking about the good side of Dupin, a detective verses the bad side of Dupin, a thief, who steals evidence to crack the case. Dupin steals evidences, a letter from Pastor D. The scene shows Dupin, as a private investigator and a crock, who found his old criminal habits hard to break. The letter…

The ride to the police station was tense. Eli’s muscles had tightened and his sarcastic remarks had ceased. His hands were raw and sore from the cuffs digging in. His limbs folded in and his neck was stiff Being 6’4 in a police car was the farthest thing from comfortable. His mind became assaulted with an array of thoughts as he took a shy glance out the window and began to wonder if they were going to be his last look outside. The sound of Sgt. Juit hoarse voice dragged Eli out of thoughts…

good Detective Story? There are several things that make a good detective story, but there is only two that really say how good a true detective story is. The detective is the most important part on how good a detective story will be. Then the second is the crime, depending on how bizarre the crime is tells how good the story will be. Now in the next two passages I’ll explain how “Adventure of the Speckled Band” is a good detective by the detective and the crime. Beginning with the Detective,…

An often debated question is that of what makes a good story. In the 1800s, Edgar Allan Poe created one list of rules that he thinks makes a good detective story. These include requirements such as "clues ... to allow the reader to solve the crime" and "a detective with strong intuitive skills" (Poe, "Rules for Detective Stories"). Two mystery tales that can be judged using these rules to determine which is better are Poe's own short story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and a movie, The Bone…

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” Neil Armstrong. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and grew up to be a very successful and talented writer. Sadly, he died on October 7, 1849 but no one knows for sure how. There are many theories as to how Poe died but one sticks out over many others, a brain tumor. One reason that supports this theory is that twenty six years after Edgar Allan Poe’s death, his body was exhumed. One of the sextons at the…

Kaz signaled to Inej, and she leapt down. She shut the wagon door, fastened the padlock, and slid the bold home. A second later the opposite side of the door pushed open. Kaz had simply removed the hinges. It was a trick they’d used plenty of times when a lock was too complicated to pick quickly or they wanted to make a theft look like an inside job. Ideal for faking suicides, Kaz had once told her, and she’d never been sure if he was sincere. Inej took a last look at the road. The men had…

"We should call in Lila." Detective Tom Reilly dropped the photo he held in his fingers, and leaned back in his seat to stare at his partner, Jarrod Blair, with those words. "I'm not sure, Jarrod," he replied as his gaze was drawn back to the image of the bruised and battered, naked and defiled woman that had landed face up on his wooden desk in the 96th precinct. The one whose slim, attractive features, age, long brunette hair, and deep brown eyes reminded him of his wife, and the mention…

ambiguity and character behavior, allows Christie to develop the novel's three crucial themes: distortion of justice, effect of guilt, and use of concealment. The majority of murder mystery novels examine the act of a murderer who, because of the main detective, is brought to justice for their crimes. In And Then There…

Swiss novelist and play writer, Friedrich Durrenmatt, in his tragicomedy, The Visit, tells the corrupted tale of how one woman earns her justice by turning a whole town of people against one man, all for revenge. Durrenmatt uses Claire’s revenge to show the true corruption of justice in Europe following World War II. Durrenmatt creates a suspenseful tone in order to express to his readers the idea that wealth and corruption can bring one power. Claire Zachanassian shows her power and control by…